Tati as TATI
Tony as TONY
ACT 1 SCENE 1
“He Had it Coming”
Set in the lounge room of a cosy three-storey tree house in an unspecified fantasy location.
TONY is sitting in a comfortable armchair. He is reading a comic book.
Enter TATI. She is out of breath. Her eyes are crazed. Her spikey hair is even more so.
TATI: (speaking to TONY) Catastrophe! Tony, it’s just a catastrophe!
TONY rolls his eyes. He doesn’t bother getting up. TATI pulls this kind of shit every other week.
TONY: You’re such a drama queen.
He turns back to the comic in his lap. Nausicaä is about to face off against the Ohmu and he doesn’t want any distractions.
TATI: (thinking) Huh? What bullshit! You yourself are the drama queen, boy!
She stands over TONY, arms akimbo and staring daggers at him.
TATI: (speaking again) I was looking at our Amazon account, and someone has made our book free. Who did this? Was it you?
TONY shakes the daggers out of his hair. They thunk on the floor with such bloody minded literalness that TATI is forced to do some serious eye rolling of her own.
TONY: (sarcastically) Relax! It’s only for two days. You needn’t be stressing about causing a global financial crisis or something quite yet.
TATI feels like hitting TONY with a chair.
TATI: It was ninety-nine cents! Who do you think you are? Tony Rockefeller?
TONY’S brow crinkles like a sheet of corrugated iron.
TONY: (bluntly) I have no idea who that is. I mean, what the hell? You’re always making references to things I know nothing about. You know my brain can only hold one thing at a time. I’m a simple creature!
TATI: (smirking) Are you Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu? Blessed Tony of Calcutta?!
TONY: (really confused) I’m sorry? What the fuck?! No! I’m just me! Well, I thought I was anyways…
TONY scratches his head. He has no idea where this conversation is going.
TONY: (thinking) Someone ought to tell her that this free promotion is for our mutual benefit! All I’m trying to do is get more people interested in our book!
TATI: (thinking) Oh. Why didn’t he say so immediately?
That’s when TATI and TONY realise that they can hear what the other is thinking.
TONY: (thinking) Shit, I’d better be careful what I think and say from here on. Keep my thoughts pure!
TATI: (thinking) Pure? What do you mean ‘pure’? What have you been thinking, boy?
TONY: (thinking) NOTHING! I haven’t thunk a thing at all! I’m completely asexual. No genitals or anything. I’m like a Ken doll down there. Honest!
TATI: (thinking) Ugh! You’re such a pervert. You’re Hannibal Lecher!
TATI picks up the chair then decides not to hit him with it. She puts it down again. Sure, TONY has it coming but hitting him with a chair would be like kicking a mangy, defenseless dog in the head. She just cannot do it. She does, however, have one final thing to say before she leaves the room.
TATI: (speaking) It should have been five! Five days! Not only two days of free promotion. You always fuck up with math, Tony Boeotian!
TONY: (speaking) Who the hell is Tony… Boat Teeing?
TATI lets loose an exasperated sigh and exits the room. TONY is just as confused as he was before. He pauses a moment, then shrugs and turns back to his comic.
END SCENE
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2016
unbolt me 
Pure art in the form of prose ,wonderful
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And we had a lot of fun writing it too! Thanks, Craig. 😀
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Hello the duets, I have downloaded and read your book, and I am so thankful to both of you for having gifted us this book. Well the book in itself is an hypnotical combination of words so as to make the reader penetrate in a strange world where I felt that I was the character that was talking (so as not to spoil:). I don’t know if it’s the eye (ra) on the cover that engulfed me inside of what you both have written but I have the impression that the words were more coded so as to drag our eyes on your style of writing. It was mysterious and beautiful. Thanks again.
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Christa, this has to be among the best feedback we’ve ever gotten for Mooreeffoc. Thank you so much! We’re so glad you enjoyed the writing itself. We were concerned that it might be a bit impenetrable in some ways. Apparently not. I guess we pitched it at the right level after all! 😀
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Yes, it will indeed be difficult for some people out there to understand what they have been reading and the atmosphere you wanted to put in your book but as being on the Internet and in a virtual world, writings should differ from that on paper, it’s a new age, and with new age should come new things, as being someone that totally immerse myself in characters that people create, I find it sometimes difficult to feel the things in fiction writing, so that’s why I prefer movies so as to see the scene as it’s meant to be and read more non fictional books, but I have seen some new kinds of writings where the places and feelings have been described marvelously, am all hypnotised and fully connected to the character. It’s wonderful how writing can evolve like that but for sure it’s meant for only a small amount of people who have another kind of sights that takes writing to another level of understanding like the great book you have written. Thanks.
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Yes, I find that I’m quite a visual person, so I tend to need to be able to form some kind of mind picture whenever I’m reading something. If the writing doesn’t allow me to do that then I can’t be as invested in it as I’d like. Thanks again for reading, Christa. Very much appreciate your support! 😀
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Your welcome Tony.
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Funny
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Hee hee! Thank you, Eby. 😀
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