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The Sound Inside 8/23/19 17
CHRISTOPHER(mopping)
A Mid-Century Corona. Recently refurbished.
BELLA
By the way, not knowing what’s going to happen is a good thing. If your
protagonist is leading you then you’ll likely stay ahead of your reader.
CHRISTOPHER Thank you.
BELLA
You’re welcome.
(to AUDIENCE)
He finishes mopping and asks if he can come talk to me again tomorrow.
CHRISTOPHER I promise I’ll go through the online departmental catbox. I mean calendar.
BELLA(to AUDIENCE)
The day after that he returns yet again.
I thank him for following proper procedure.
CHRISTOPHER Yeah, no one else had signed up so I requested two blocks of time. I hope
that’s cool. I mean, if you get tired of me just say so and I can go like wander
campus and get mentally prepared for the big football game coming up with
Harvard this weekend. Stockpile the coldcuts. Get my face painted. Do some
steroids. Headbutt random campus bulletin boards, etcetera, etcetera.
CHRISTOPHER Has she gotten smaller?
Christopher’s gaze travels over to the photograph.
BELLA
I believe she’s the same size she was yesterday.
CHRISTOPHER I keep expecting it to snow.
BELLA
Oh, in the photo—
CHRISTOPHER Yeah. I have this weird feeling that if I come back tomorrow the field will be
covered. With snow. Like twenty inches. But no footprints. The woman’s just
there. As if the field imagined her.
BELLA
Do you think it would be a better image?