Friday, July 02, 2004

SETTING-

College bound Girl sits in her room. It's torn apart, ready to be moved across the hall to a new room, officially beginning the transition into saying goodbye. She sits at her computer, typing to friends and reading xangas. The once adorned bunk bed is now practically bare. All that remains are mattresses. Music in the background, We'll All Float On by Modest Mouse plays at a comfortable level. Enter Mom stage left, music fades to silence-

(Pause, almost awkward silence)


Mom: What are you doing?

Girl: Just taking a break for a while... What about you?

Mom: What?

Girl: What about you?

Mom: Oh. Dying my hair.

(Pause)

You love me right?

Girl: Yeah, of course I do.

Girl leans back in chair and looks at Mom, looks down.

(Pause)

Mom looks at bed and touches it.


Girl: It’s ready to be moved. I just have to unscrew it.

Mom: We'll do that tomorrow morning. Ok?

Girl: Yeah.

Exit Mom. Girl begins typing. Music rises and scene gradually dims as the song stops. Girl continues to type.

"And we'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on
Aliright don't worry even if things end up a bit to heavy
we'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on

Alright already we'll all float on
Ok don't worry we'll all float on
Even if things get heavy we'll all float on
Alright already we'll all float on
Don't you worry we'll all float on
All float on........"



fin

1 Comments:

At July 7, 2004 at 12:58 AM, Blogger x13xgreen said...

That is beautiful. With art that gets to me like that, I always wonder if it was something that actually happened, or a rendition of something that actually happened, or completely imagined. I find that I don't care; whatever dimension it was created from, it's real in the intent.

 

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