once upon a home made video...


(EMILY is seated on a dull gray stairwell, which seems to be in a parking lot behind a supermarket. She is bathed in a yellow light, smoking a cigarette and staring blankly ahead. From the left enters ALICIA, and without speaking she seats herself beside EMILY)

ALICIA: How are you?

EMILY: Miserable. How else?

ALICIA: yeah. Its a damn shame. Can I have a drag? (EMILY passes her cigarette to ALICIA, she takes a long drag closing her eyes blissfully) You know what? Sometimes when I bite into dried apricots…I feel like I'm biting into human flesh.

EMILY: (screws up her face into an expression of confusion and almost, disgust, but then proceeds to go back to its dull blank expression of before) Well, you know, I think a lot of weird things too…I mean, I used to have a non-sexual crush on Obi-Wan Kanobi from "A New Hope."

ALICIA: Really? Me too! I thought I was the only one!…I wonder why that is?

EMILY: I am suspecting that maybe it's because he's sort of a father figure, you know, like…say, Santa Claus.

ALICIA: Santa Claus? I don’t know, I don’t really see him as a fatherly figure, to me he's more like the friendly pervert in the park or something.

EMILY: That’s true, but you know, some dads are like that.
(This is followed by a long uncomfortable pause)
well…not my dad…

ALICIA: (Raising hands in defense) Uh… Not my dad either…

(They chuckle awkwardly. Again it is silent and the pair glance away from each other, EMILY stubs out her cigarette and ALICIA pretends to be focused on the back of her hand)


END SCENE.