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Monologue
Mania Day # 206 by Janet S. Tiger Interview With the Devil Sept. 6, 2014
Interview
With the Devil
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved
tigerteam1@gmail.com
(The sheriff and the reporter are sitting at the bar together, both have had a
couple drinks and are more relaxed. The sheriff turns to her and looks at
her very carefully, then lifts his glass)
I lift my glass to you, young lady,
because I have to say, that of all the news people who have graced our fine
town, you are the one who has lasted the longest, dug into things the deepest,
who now has an official enemy here, a person or persons unknown, who wants you
very desperately to stop digging. someone I must protect you from because that
is my job. And in spite of knowin all this about you, you are still the
biggest mystery I have.
(She laughs and raises her glass)
Yes, you are the mystery. I
have done a little bit of research into you, my friend from New
Yawk.....murders are not your usual interest. Usually, you write about
happy endings. Like that piece you did on the twins who were separated
when they were only two months old, and adopted by different families.
And then they found each other after 54 years, and they both had married men
named Mike, both had two children, a boy and a girl, and they wore their
hair the same way.
That was a nice story.....and then
you did that one about the dolphins from Katrina, and how they survived.....I
liked that one, too.
But no murders, I didn't see one
story from you about a murder. Nothin close either, no missin children,
no suspicious deaths or drug deals gone bad and restrainin orders that don't
work. Nope. Just happy stuff. Any sad had very feel good
endings.......and that brings me to my original question, because there is no
way that is case is evah gonna have a happy endin.....not when it starts the
way it did with two deaths of children and a murder of the killer......and now,
now that Jorge was acquited, and you are pokin your pretty little nose into
places it shouldn't go, we have a new set of problems.
Was I wrong? Was there
another killer? I don't think so, even if it wasn't Jorge who pulled the
trigger, he knows who did, which makes him an accessory at best. But with
the trial over, and no definite end, we have a small town askin each other,
'who is the killer here?'
Is it my friend, that I have known
for forty years? Or my neighbor, here only 15 years? I'm sure you
heard the expression....'once the seeds of doubt are sown......'
(He takes out a cigarette and lights it while saying the rest)
It's almost as if we had a balance
here, and then the devil comes in.....not that I believe in things like that
you understand, but the devil comes in and all the devil has to do is a couple
of things and people are lookin at each other different than before.... I'm
sure you heard the expression....'once the seeds of doubt are sown......'
(He
takes a deep breath of smoke and blows it out slowly.)
So, my question still stands, Miz
Walter.......... why the hell are you here?
(The lights shift to the reporter.)
Note- Her reply will be tomorrow's
monologue
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Janet
S. Tiger 858-736-6315
Member
Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg
Hall 2006-8
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Janet S. Tiger
858-736-6315
Member Dramatists
Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall
2006-8
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