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Monologue Mania July 11, 2014 Day # 149 Burning Diaries by Janet S. Tiger
Monologue Mania July 11, 2014 Day # 149 Burning Diaries by Janet S. Tiger
This was from many years ago, but I've changed a bit, so it is new.
BURNING
DIARIES by Janet S. Tiger
from © 4/30/83 now July 11, 2014
(1983) all rights reserved
tigerteam1@gmail.com
(A woman enters. She is carrying a metal basket which she puts on the floor)
I burned my diaries
yesterday. It wasn’t as easy as I
thought – the fire would die out on the thickness of the pages, and I had to use
almost a book of matches to finish the job.
I
thought by the action I could make the time disappear…shrink back into the void. I thought that by the red glow of the flames
I could wipe away the things I could remember – not just what I wanted to forget,
but all of it.
In
time, as the years go by and the relatives and friends who lived and know the
truth -or their version of it- pass away, the past will be gone, and I will be
happy.
Why
did I do it? Because I don’t want the me
I am to be seen by anyone else unless I want it to be seen, and so, I erased
the tapes of my life.
I
burned my diaries yesterday. It wasn’t
as easy as I thought – the fire would die out on the thickness of the pages,
and I had to use almost a book of matches to finish the job. Of course, perhaps the flames went out
because of the tears…..
(She exits. The end.)
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Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315
www.JanetSTiger.weebly.com
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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