Monday, November 24, 2014

"Butch Gardens, Episode 65" by Mocha Tchokha Rose


            (The lusty seniors are walking in the woods.)

GRACE
We’re lost.

GEORGETTE
I’m afraid so.

GRACE
We’ll never slit those drug lords’ throats.

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
Is that what we were doing?

GEORGETTE
You should sit, Gracie.

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
Let’s rest near this obelisk that looks like Annie.

GRACE
Annie?

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
            (Explaining)
The one whose lover was dead but came back to life.

            (They relax near an obelisk that looks like Annie.)

            END OF EPISODE 65.

Monday, November 17, 2014

"Butch Gardens, Episode 64" by Mocha Tchokha Rose


            (In the drug lords’ lair.  Showing evidence of having fought, ELINOR RADLEY 
            confronts her unseen nemesis.)

ELINOR RADLEY
So it’s you!

LONNIE
Whos she talking to?

FOOFEE
Shhh---!

            (The PANTHER LADY growls.)

            (ELINOR RADLEY and her unseen nemesis circle round each other.)

ELINOR
Oh ho!  You’ll pay for that!

            (She lunges into space.)

            END OF EPISODE 64.

Monday, November 10, 2014

"Aria for Westward"



            (MRS. HO appears on a windswept street.  Crumpled newspapers and broken 
            umbrellas blow by.  MRS. HO carries her grandson, whom she shields from the 
            wind.  All is white and blackish.)

MRS. HO
Where is my son?
Where is my Westward?
Come back to me, son!
Come toward me, O Westward!

            (A blown twig slaps her in her face.)

            (Elsewhere, WESTWARD HO watches from his crystal ball.  He laughs, then 
            feels bad.)

            END OF “ARIA FOR WESTWARD.”

Monday, November 3, 2014

"Butch Gardens, Episode 63" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

            (The drug lords’ lair.  It’s gray, like a dusty shooting gallery but with nobody 
            popping out.  A faint buzzing.)

            (The younger women---ELINOR RADLEY, FOOFEE, LONNIE, and the 
            PANTHER LADY---approach.)


FOOFEE
The drug lords lair.  Do we walk in?

LONNIE
Where could they be?  Oh, I don’t understand men.

            (The PANTHER LADY yelps and switches something with her tail.)

FOOFEE
What’s the---?

            (The PANTHER LADY yelps again and spins around, looking for what bit her.)

                    FOOFEE (Continued)
What---?

            (FOOFEE touches her side.)

                    FOOFEE (Continued)
Did I bump---?

LONNIE
Something’s poking me!  Like a pencil point---

FOOFEE
It hurts a little---

LONNIE
Not too bad---

            (The PANTHER LADY snarls at an unseen annoyance.)

ELINOR RADLEY
It’s men!  Men!

            (She brushes something from her neck.)

FOOFEE
They’re attacking from another plane!

            (The women thrash mildly.)

LONNIE
How do we fight what we can’t see or hear?

            (Hitting.  Snarling.  Not too much.)

            END OF EPISODE 63.