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...