Monday, December 8, 2014

"Butch Gardens, Episode 67" by Mocha Tchokha Rose


            (The senior lesbians repose in the woods.  GEORGETTE and GRACE nestle 
            against each other.  COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE dozes against an obelisk that 
            looks like Annie.)

GRACE
It’s pretty here.

GEORGETTE
Better than the zoo.

            (COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE lifts her head.)

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
No; I’m sorry.

            (She drifts off again.)

GRACE
            (To the COUNTESS)
What’s she---?

GEORGETTE
’Talking in her sleep.

            (COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE lifts her head.)

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
Oh, she’s alive again, yes.  She came back . . . when Foofee and I were . . .

GEORGETTE
Who are you talking to, Baroness?

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
Me?  To this obelisk . . . it murmurs . . .

            (She falls back asleep.  GEORGETTE and GRACE share a look.)

            END OF EPISODE 67.