"Spanish Moss" is the story of three friends in the summer before high school who think they won't be respectable high school men if they've never smoked pot before. They go to the creek, expecting to come back more mature for the experience, but they see something they weren't expecting. There's a dead child's body in a bag and the sight changes them and their friendship for the rest of their lives.
I thought you did a good job of capturing the voice of a kid that age. Especially the awkward naivety about the marijuana and that whole situation. Also just the skewed perspective on everything at the beginning that makes things seem more important than they are.
The big conflict in the story seems to be the unexpected conflict from them seeing the bag and the hand. But their reactions to it are basically summarized after they leave the creek. I think some of that needs to be dramatized.
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