My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich

Bianca and Ebony-Grace fight over the movie they should see: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones, or The Karate Kid. To get her way—she wants to see the Star Trek movie—Ebony-Grace whines about wanting to go home to call Granddaddy. Bianca hasn’t seen any of the previous Star Trek movies. Her grandma doesn’t take her to the movies—she likes TV shows. Ebony-Grace attributes Bianca’s lack of “imagination location” to not the absence of films. During the film, she talks to Daddy, but he hushes her, and Bianca looks more interested in the popcorn than in the movie. Ebony-Grace remembers the Genesis Device. The tool appeared in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), and it can fix the broken and restore life to the dead.

Out in the street, a woman in a sparkly short skirt and a ton of makeup asks Daddy to tuck her in after he takes home Ebony-Grace and Bianca. Ebony-Grace yells at her, and Daddy tells her not to argue with “crazy” people. If she does, she might become one of them. Ebony-Grace wonders if Uncle Rich is “crazy”: The woman on the street looks like Uncle Rich’s “lady friends.