Category: Fiction – 12th Edition
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Was It Ever Real?
(Adam is lying on the floor while we hear someone walking around his house.) KATE: (offstage) Hello? Hello? Adam, I’m leaving to go back and just wanted to say goodbye. Where are you? (The study door opens, and Kate enters.) Oh my god! (Kate runs to his side and begins to pick him up. He coughs a few times.) […]
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Houdini the Genie
Scene 1 – Introduction (A small bathroom that looks like it has been blocked off for years. There are two stalls, and two sinks. Both stalls are facing the audience and the sinks line the wall as you go towards the door on the right. There is a warning sign on the outside of the […]
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Sue & Wanda
Once, there was a woman called Sue, who lived in a house that was blue. Twice, there were women named Margaret, but neither of them have to do with this story. Back to Sue, whose house was blue. Sue suffered from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (or Mad Cow Disease), which meant that every area rug in […]
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The Cytosapien Project
The Cytosapien Project //Galactic Interdimensional Protection Agency Mainframe// //USER DETECTED//RESTRICTED ACCESS ATTEMPT//KILLCODE IS ACTIVE// //PLEASE PROVIDE AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION// USERNAME: [JackSon5] PASSWORD: [* * * * * * * *]Thriller5 //ACCESS GRANTED// Personal Journal Entry 112 In district KIX, the M.H. class planet Polombus held a secret within its massive and prosperous city of Slivercove. Polombus was a reasonably large planet for […]
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The Intruder
Fueled by an unusual feeling of trepidation in the air, Henry hastily struggled out of bed to turn on the lamp, sitting just a few feet away. The illumination it provided was unusually and inexplicably short-lived as the light immediately flickered away. He quickly tried again only to witness an identical result. ‘Strange,’ He thought. The […]
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Transformation of a Troglophile
There is no change here. It’s been so long since you knew the warm feeling of the sun; the sensation of it has drained, taken away by the dampness that seeps into your bones here, so deep it can never leave. You don’t feel the cold brush of snow against your cheek anymore; there is […]
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The Intern
Scene – Lair An ordinary office conference room has three men in superhero get-ups sitting in chairs watching TV. A boulder is in the corner of the room. In walks the receptionist, Cheryl, with an intern known as Psycho Sis. The leader, Fly, stands to greet her. CHERYL: Right this way ma’am. PSYCHO SIS: Is this your lair? […]
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