Friday, November 28, 2025

November Playwrighting 28: Angels Weep No More

 In writing to just the 5 characters and not expanding to more, I can't seem to get out of this loop and progress the action. Hmmmm... lots rattling in my brain about it, but nothing hitting the page yet. Something is stopping me. Maybe, if I have space in my brain not worried about school planning, etc.... or getting pages out "on time", I'll find a solution. Sigh... here is today's offering.

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                    PATTY

You lead us straight here, and then we read the clue. You led us here because something was leading…

                    PEARL

Janis was leading…

                    JANIS

What?

                    PEARL

Not, you, you, but your ashes.

JANIS

What?

JIM

Trippy!

GABRIELLE

Incroyable!

 

                    JANIS

Wait! My ashes? You had my…

                    PEARL

Ashes. In a vile around my neck. They’ve been passed down in my family.

                    JANIS

So, your mother…

                    PEARL

Great-grandmother.

                    JIM

Whoa! Fuck!

(JANIS begins to laugh, pointing at JIM)

Uh-huh, can a ghost lose their mind?

                   PEARL

That’s just it. You aren’t ghosts. You can touch each other, and we can touch you. Why? The laws of physics, man. None of this should be possible.

                   JIM

Did you do some spell over my grave and sprinkle Janis’ ashes or something to get what, a private concert?

                                        JANIS

Why would my ashes raise you?

                 JIM

Chemistry, man. We’ve always had it! Boom! Your dust, baby and my magnetism that goes beyond the grave. We mingled to rise again!

                                    GABRIELLE

Non. Where is her…uh dust. Can we examine?

              PEARL

Patty has it or she did.

                                PATTY

I did, but I don’t anymore.

              JANIS

You lost me?

                                PATTY

No, I accidentally broke the vial.

PEARL

You what?

JANIS

Where?

 

 

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