October 2010
4 posts
Daily day
MAN and WOMANS Kitchen, a bare room with a table and two chairs. Dishes piled up in and around the sink. MAN enters with hand held out as if holding a bottle of water but his hand is empty. WOMAN sits reading a newspaper. WOMAN does not make eye contact with MAN
MAN: There’s a cock in my hand.
WOMAN: Your hand is empty.
MAN: No, a cock I hold.
WOMAN: You interrupt me claiming to be...
Barfly
The Rusty Peso, a dive bar. STAN tosses darts into a dartboard. Maybe he has a few empty beer bottles around him. MAN enters, tie loosened and shirt partly unbuttoned. He walks with a funny limp but tries to hide it. As MAN approaches STAN he passes a waitress.
MAN :(To waitress) Coors draft.
STAN: Whats with the limp?
MAN sits at the table propping his feet up on a chair losing himself in...
An old fashioned shave
MAN stares into mirror. A shaving brush rests on the sink in a bowl of frothy cream.
MAN: (Long pause, just staring) You’re a beautiful man. (Pause) A big strong beautiful man.
MAN begins lathering his face with the shaving brush while whistling. Starts shaving, long smooth strokes.
WOMAN (OS): (Frustrated) CHUCK!!! What are you doing? I’m gonna be late.
MAN: Be out in a sec!
MAN...
Speed Dating Through HEll
Speed dating. A bell rings, MAN sits down at table only to realize he knows the woman in front of him.
Man: (Shocked) Claudia…
Woman: (Doesn’t make eye contact with MAN. Visibly uncomfortable) It’s been awhile.
Man: How bout we pretend this never happened. I’ll wait over there until the next lucky gentlemen has the honor to meet you.
WOMAN: Well, you haven’t...
May 2010
5 posts
Now You Don’t Have Too
It begins.
The sun slides behind a large black mountain. You enter an ocean only locals are supposed to have access to and ride the foaming wave mouths accepting the punishment they bestow, a full moon translucent visible in the evening sky.
You’re tossed, helpless… uncaring, under the salty water. Head briefly bobbing above, choking for air. Plunging your...
CALL NIGHT:
A TALE TOLD AFTER
A RETAIL BANKER LOST HIS JOB
The color of the sky? The hell if I knew. My eyes were focused on the numbers, the ratio of sales versus goals, the gaps, the ones I was responsible for. The empty spreadsheet columns piercing my eyes like hot needles. The boss made it clear we weren’t getting out there until we hit our numbers.
He made it sound easy,...
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Interrogation
Officer Fenway: So… Let’s get to the meat. Let’s…Why don’t you go ahead and tell me what happened?
Steve: Look, man I-
Officer Fenway: Sir
Steve: Sir?
Officer Fenway: Address me as Sir…not “man.”
Steve: Oh. Okay…alright, whatever. I… I …Look man, Sir. I…
Officer Fenway: We both want ot go home, yeah?
Steve: Yeah.
...
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Translator
Are you confused when I speak(?)
I not make sense,
I stutter or stammer or mix up my vowels sounding words?
So jumbled, so jagged that you nod and show teeth in agreement
signing the social contract.
Something on my face?
I washed this morning.
I awkward, lisping my way through our pleasantries?
Need a translator? I speak a foreign language?
It’s normal in my mind,
The words I...
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The Hive
We don’t behave like this,
Worker bee’s having happier days
drones the middle man,
Protect the QUEEN!
At all cost
Protect the QUEEN!
Unless she’s on sale- Then take two.
We don’t think like this,
Not us.
April 2010
3 posts
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Conversation with my Father
”You’ve got to be fucking me Zack. Earlier this year they find pills in your room and now…
“Da…”
“Listen to me. You’re telling me, you’re honestly saying, that someone put the drugs in your backpack, that you’ve been set up?”
“Yeah.”
“I can’t...
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Today in the Break Room
A: (Points to sandwich) You gonna finish that?
B: Yup, planning on it.
A: Can I have a bite?
B: Sorry Pally.
A: Come on… Just a nib-
B: Can’t do it.
A: nib…nibly.
B: Well… You got anything I might want? A little trade action?
A: Uhhh. I.. I… I got a-
B: On second thought I think I would rather have it all to myself. It’s so delicious. Delectable really.
A: That’s fine. Don’t want any...
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Interview With a Former Child
Women? What do I think about women?… Good question. I don’t know… I guess… I gue… haven’t really thought about it. So much has changed… You know? I mean I think I know about one… and she… she turns out to be something different. Been pulling the curtain over all along. I’ve pretty much stopped trying to learn anything about them.
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