A monologue; one of a Grand Guignol style production 'Cabaret of Confessions'
Imagine this… to begin… Arson. Murder. Destruction. A child. Alone.
# Permanent link to Reflections
The empty shell of her home reflected in the tears in her eyes, we watch as they fall. The smell, the dry smell of the cinders as they dissolve into ash around her. Choking her… as she crouches. Half lit by the remaining flames. Flickering.
She reaches to her mother. Her body barely visible through the half-lit smoke. Motionless. The child fumbles forwards, hugging the corpse. Rocking. Sobbing. Her sister’s body lies near by, her father is no where to be seen.
Suddenly a near by mirror smashes in the heat… sending glass flying towards her. She screams in pain. We see her scream in pain… but her screams are silenced… drowned even, by the remaining flames as they destroy what is left.
The Faceless
An excerpt from my initial draft of ‘The Faceless’, a short story about three characters; their journey through masking their fears and desires. Jane’s story: And so she waits. Contemplative. Performing the everyday to avoid an inner-consumption. Re-enacting the future, repeatedly in anticipation of the unknown, taking control in the only way left. Habitually her…
Scribbles of an insomniac 