An inebriated Dan Ransom is driving home from a party with a beautiful,
young woman, whose name he can’t remember. As he drives he becomes
distracted when he catches a glimpse of the unconscious woman’s panties.
He pays less and less attention to the road as the young woman’s anatomy
captivates his attention and leads his mind astray.
His shameless manipulations result in the woman becoming aroused, further
feeding his lustful desires. A tractor trailer coming from the opposite
direction permanently ends Dan’s interests in the young woman as it
sideswipes the car that Dan frantically tries to remove from the path of
destruction. After the accident, Dan awakens amid the underbrush near his
wrecked Porsche. The car is resting on its side well off the road. Dan
gets up and goes to the car looking for the young woman whose name he now
remembers is Sandy. He searches the car’s interior and finds no sign of
her.
As Dan searches the surrounding bushes, he notices a light near the road
at the end of the path through the foliage that his car left in its
passing. He begins walking toward the light, searching the brush as he
makes his way down the tunnel-like path. A cursory glance over his
shoulder reveals a thick blanket of fog that soon envelops him. Dan runs
through the fog-shrouded forest until he trips and falls, becoming
unconscious. When he awakens, he hears a voice and follows the sound
through the fog until he comes upon a hotel. He leaves the fog and goes to
the hotel where he is met by a female night clerk.
Dan wants to use a phone and is informed that they have no phone. He
quickly learns, after entering the hotel, that he is trapped in this
place. A large, mysterious, and beneficent hotel manager, who introduces
himself as Clarence Graves, calms Dan down and shows him to his room. Dan
goes to bed and is troubled by a dream of a hospital operating room. He
awakens the next morning to find a pair of teens trying to break into his
room. After speaking with them shortly, Dan decides it’s time to get to
the bottom of this mystery and heads down to the lobby where he meets with
Clarence Graves.
Dan and Clarence discuss the reason Dan is here. Dan is forced to
watch/live through a couple of his life experiences that were somewhat
shameful. He is then told that he must choose to either pay for his sins
or cease existing. Dan is told to return to his room and decide. Dan reads
the book in his room and finds that it is about his life. Max Brewer, one
of the teens, talks with him and tells Dan about a third choice – fixing
the problem – getting a Second Chance. Dan studies the book more and goes
to sleep. He awakens to find himself in the back seat of his own car,
watching his actions just prior to the accident.
Dan, with his new knowledge and considerably altered sense of what is
right and wrong, successfully avoids the accident only to find himself
confronted by the husband of the beautiful young woman from the party. Dan
doesn’t live through the encounter, however, his actions were enough to
tilt the scales in his favor and he is able to avoid the choices offered
him at the hotel and enter the Light.
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2005 Rodney Cook
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