Playwriting Every Day in November Day 21

Challenge: Technology Goes Awry

FIONA looks through a digital photo album of memories with her and MARCIA. FIONA is 35. We see the photos fickler behind as she smiles at each memory from 2 to 25. Everything from baking Christmas cookies together to reading school books, to summer fun, to snowman building. Each photo we can feel the bounds of time coming undone a little more. We feel MARCIA closer and closer to being here again on the couch looking at the photos with her.

Right when we feel that MARCIA will enter the room, the album begins to glitch. With it the lights flicker as well as if the very light of the room is dependant on the memories.

FIONA
No, no, no… please…
(The gods of technology show no mercy today. The digital frame dies, the lights go out, all we hear are sobs from FIONA as she experiences her loss again.)

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