Monday, June 24, 2013

"Butch Gardens, Episode 6" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

ANNIE
Up ahead . . . I think I see a sign---

LONNIE
We’ve been walking forever---

ANNIE
A little exercise---

LONNIE
What does it say?

ANNIE
The leaves---

LONNIE
Honestly . . .

            (LONNIE brushes the leaves away.  There, in the peeled paint, glitzy letters call
            out, “Butch Gardens.”)

                  LONNIE (Continued)
“Butch Gardens”---?

ANNIE
My kind of place---

LONNIE
Honestly---

ANNIE
It’s like some kind of abandoned lesbian amusement park---

            (ELINOR RADLEY emerges from the shadows and curtsies low.)

ELINOR RADLEY
Abandoned no more.

            (ANNIE and LONNIE start.)

            END OF EPISODE 6.