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Curtain Call
ISSUE #1
Author: Greenleaf
Curtain Call
Author: Greenleaf
ISSUE #1
The Morning After
No Plagiarism!HCcS3SmYKkfDoyw8ZSHBposted on PＥNAＮＡ

THE MORNING AFTER1304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPuluYyvW5

--

     A pharmacy, early morning. Its windows are completely shattered, surroundings ruined. Lights on a bleary college STUDENT blinking himself awake. He is only half-dressed, remaining clothes comically torn, and is surrounded by toppled medicine bottles, broken glass, and gossip mags. An empty beer bottle is clenched in his fist. 

    A weathered POLICEMAN enters and strides towards the STUDENT without a word.

STUDENT1304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnWCYjQZln
(desperately)

This isn’t what -

POLICEMAN

Hands.

     After a moment, the STUDENT reluctantly sticks out both hands and is handcuffed. This should be slow but thorough and deliberate; the only sound is the clinking of locks and chains. The POLICEMAN helps him up and starts leading him out. The STUDENT tries again.

STUDENT

It really isn’t - 

POLICEMAN

Of course not.

STUDENT

I mean, I - 

POLICEMAN

I’m sure.

STUDENT

No, you don’t - 

POLICEMAN

I already know. 

STUDENT1304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAR3eH68w9x
(frustrated)

You can’t possibly - 

POLICEMAN1304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYroiRL4Og
(abruptly)

You were drunk?

STUDENT

Why - yes, I -

POLICEMAN

Out with friends?

STUDENT

Yes, in fact - 

POLICEMAN

Final exams over?

STUDENT

They are, and - 

POLICEMAN

Things got rowdy?

STUDENT1304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3eCa2KlDR
(hopeful and excited)

Yes! How did - 

POLICEMAN1304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75k5nzfKjJ
(long-suffering)

No.

STUDENT

...what?1304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9A5NcFRtf6

POLICEMAN1304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtviB0EUV5i

Not hearing it.

STUDENT1304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZF90KCMhN
(crestfallen)

What? But I - 

POLICEMAN

No.

STUDENT1304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS74Qwy8Ubj
(after a brief silence; resigned)

...okay.

     Blackout as STUDENT is bundled into a police cruiser.

--

A/N: We were challenged to write a script in which each line of dialogue was no more than three words long. This was the result!

216.73.217.39

ns216.73.217.39da2
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Curtain Call
Screenplay
Short Story
Last updated: Mar 5, 2018
Total word count: 809
Total reading time: 4 Minutes
Writer:
Greenleaf
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