Monday, May 20, 2013

"Butch Gardens, Episode 1" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

LONNIE
Annie, what is this place?

ANNIE
I just got out of the crashed airplane.

LONNIE
’You hurt?

ANNIE
Nothin’ for a lady like me.

LONNIE
            (Terrified)
Wheres my hand?
            (Appeased)
Oh, I just lost the feelin’ in it.  What can you do . . .  Where are we?

            (ANNIE unfolds a map.)

                  LONNIE (Continued)
That map won’t---

ANNIE
It can’t hurt---

LONNIE
We were flying over the Amazon.

ANNIE
I hear a mighty river---

            (The roar of water.)

                   ANNIE (Continued)
Should we march towards it?

            (They head in the direction of the roar.  Someone is watching from behind a woman-
          eating plant.)

          END OF EPISODE 1.