The Chocolate City Files
AN INDEPENDENT FEATURE FILM
Washington, DC. 1986.
Four thirteen-year-olds learned the monsters from their comic books were very real.
And very close.
The Story Behind the Story
Exhibit A
This is Bryce Barnes' desk… just before things got weird.
A few of the thing on it: a can of Rock Creek orange soda going flat. A comic about a creature of the night and the hero who hunts him. An itinerary for the first comic book club meeting he and his two best friends have had in over a year.
It's been the hardest year of Bryce's life, so he built a world of his own to get through it. Imagination. Creativity. Friendship. This desk is a snapshot of that world.
But that’s about to shift and this desk will show it.
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