Monday, November 5, 2012

"The Provinces, Part I" by Sunny Ho

MOTHER
Here is a ticket.  You are vacationing in the provinces.

YOUNG WOMAN
But I don’t want to go---

MOTHER
I have bought it with your father’s life insurance.

YOUNG WOMAN
I would rather stay and study centrifugal forces.

MOTHER
There are centrifuges in the provinces.

YOUNG WOMAN
Can my brother go instead?

MOTHER
It was your father’s dying wish.  I will hear no more of it.

            END OF PART I.