For Third Eye Horror’s Fictionwocky May 31-day challenge
Leg 4 – The Play Leg
Write your piece as a short play. Use dialogue format and character names.
T: Why are you naked?
V: Why are you naked, too? I thought it was your idea.
T: How do you figure that?
V: You’re the playwright.
T: No, I just always am naked. Life is a stage, my friend, and I prefer no pretenses, either off-statg or on. I'm honest. Starkly honest.
V: No you're not. You're pixelated. But fair enough. Mind if I slip something on?
T: Not at all.
T & V (together): Wardrobe!
V: Where’s Wardrobe.
T: Over there. The naked guy.
V: You may be the playwright, but I have decided to un-suspend my disbelief.
T: You wouldn’t dare!
V: Watch me!
T: You think you have any say? You’re just an actor. I engendered you; put the spark of life in you; determine whether and how, on merely my caprices, you live or die.
V: Ya think?
T: Yes. Yes, I definitely think. What power do you have?
V: I’ve got two words for you. They're usually what an actor says before storming off the stage.
T: This is not that kind of play.
V: We’re naked…and…you say it’s not that kind of play? I think it’s exactly that kind of play.
T: If you must resort to common vulgarity, then do it. Say it. Say the words. I’m not afraid. I've heard it all before.
V: You sound so brave, so defiant.
T: Say your worst. We’re off script now, so it’s all improve from here. You can say anything and the show will go on.
V: Oh, yeah?
T: Yeah!
V: Two words…
T: You said that, already. Wait! Are “two words” the very two words? Nice try.
V: Hardly.
T: That’s only one word, even if it is an adverb.
V: That’s not one of them.
T: I’m waiting, wise guy. Hit me with ‘em. I’ll just take it as a cue to press on from there.
V: Ready?
T: I stay ready, bucko!
V: Here they are…
T: (tapping foot)
V: The…End.
(Curtain.)
T: (From behind curtain, shouting) They were my words, not his. I wrote them!
(Audience erupts in applause, standing to their feet. Some of them are naked, because it’s that type of play.)
Lol! I read this naked! 😂