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Eavesdrop No. 11

By January 30, 2012January 22nd, 2016Writing

(Characters: Will, Olga
Setting: Pool room of the Starchart Bar. 3 p.m.)

Will: That has to be the most absurd sales pitch I’ve ever witnessed.

Olga: Tell me you weren’t tempted.

Will: I couldn’t have kept a straight face.

Olga: It would certainly put a new spin on your theory of limits.

Will: I’m not interested in being a pioneer.

Olga: Even small dogs must bark.

Will: Not if they cherish their precious solitude.

Olga: Oh now you’re punishing me with the straight face jive.

Will: You think I’m a closet ham.

Olga: For all your precious solitude you’re the best known hermit on the entire island.

Will: That hasn’t been my doing.

Olga: No as ironic as it must seem.

Will: People want what they can’t have that’s all.

Olga: And you can’t be bothered with the merely curious the holiday scholars.

Will: Why should I be.

Olga: You have in the past.

Will: Those were different times.

Olga: Oh really.

Will: Yes yes and you know damn well how.

Olga: We were younger is all that’s all that’s changed.

Will: And so you’re saying that.

Olga: People haven’t changed no not really.

Will: So just because.

Olga: Not in the things that.

Will: Just because the Archbishop admits to synesthesia doesn’t.

Olga: What’s he got to do with it.

Will: He’s a prime example.

Olga: A prime example of what.

Will: Of change of.

Olga: You think that because he holds a press conference and tells the world that the letter A is white and B is blue and C is yellow that he’s been bumped off the hit list.

Will: Oh please hit men aren’t.

Olga: Aren’t what aren’t ever going to change.

Will: I didn’t say that.

Olga: Assassins are people too remember.

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