This is my play.  I'm very proud of it.  But I know it's not great yet.  So, yeahhhh.

Also, there's a ton of italics and stuff like that mixxing, but there's no way i'm going to go through and fix all that.  So, use your imaginations.  GO!

Mailbox
By Monica M. Brown

Characters
SAUL PETERSON - Man.  Nervous, finicky, worried.  Sensitive, but a bit ( Read more... )

It's back. I got it back.

[This is the same story, told through three completely different styles.]

The Haiku

Dark crying worries child
Women’s palm touches stomach
The loss connects all

The Rainbow

In the bedroom, the one with the blue carpet, sat a woman on a simple green stool. She held in her hands the hands of her husband who knelt before her. ( Read more... )

With a saddened sine
He waved goodbye
Our meeting caved, and I retreated.
Inches from home, I recalled the glove. 
Did he see it?
I hope he saw it.
I hope he grabbed it...
He was Trigonometric in nature -
Simple
           yet complex
The magnitude of our embrace battled with my brain
The function of our rendez-vous was to remember
The trouble is
I never ( Read more... )

I froze. I could feel the tingles rising up from my toes and down from my skull, colliding together somewhere in my abdomen. They weren’t good tingles. They burst, burned, and banged within me. I was exploding inside, but my exterior was frozen solid ( Read more... )

I was a zombie today. When one stays up 'til three am for no reason except to stare at a blinding computer screen for four and a half hours one converts to a form that is unrecognizable. One collapses on the floor from exhaustion at any given moment. One may respond to one's friends in a very delayed fashion. And one may very well fall asleep ( Read more... )

What I don't understand is why he didn't call. Or even tell me in person. He's such an idiot sometimes. I mean, sure, I was going to be upset, God knows I am now, but he could have at least TOLD me. Me, the one who he used to tell EVERYTHING to. Me, the one who he feels most comfortable with, who he's most honest with. Damnit, why doesn't he ( Read more... )