Select one of the following scenarios, copy it to your page and then write a matching dialogue to go with it. Whatever your choice, try to bring the scenario to some sort of close in the actual dialogue. Target length: 250-500 words.
A childlike creature dressed in muddy rags is rudely awakened from her sleep by what appears to be an inquisitive leprechaun prodding her with an oak twig.
Leprechaun: Child! CHILD!
Childlike (Staring at the small man intently): Whaaaat?
Leprechaun: You can’t sleep here. They are looking for kids like you to take to the orphanage. Don't you know that?
Childlike: First of all, who are “they”? Second, I’m fifteen years old.
Leprechaun (Looks surprised from the news): Oh… Awful small are you not?
Childlike: Yeah, I have heard that one before.
Leprechaun: But I just said it, and we only just met! Are you some kind of wizard?
Childlike: No… Just… I… (Deep sigh) Who are “they”, and why would they take me? I’m not a child.
Leprechaun: They are The Police, and they take teenagers too you know!
Childlike: What do they do with teenagers?
Leprechaun: Throw ‘em out the city gates.
Childlike (Looks around at the surroundings): They don’t recruit or anything. They just throw us out?
Leprechaun: Yes.
Childlike: How do they stop us from getting in again?
Leprechaun: They don’t.
Childlike: They don’t? Why the bloody hell not?
Leprechaun: Costs too much they say.
Childlike: But, why do they even throw us out then?
Leprechaun: Because of their motto. “They will tire before we do!”
Childlike (Stares at the leprechaun, visibly dumbfounded): …….. Really? They do the same thing with criminals?
Leprechaun: Yes, and yes. Most persistent lot they are. They don't do it like that where you come from?
Childlike: I don’t really know if I’d call that persistence or stupidity… And no, they don't.
Leprechaun): If you think you know better than them, how about you go tell them what they have to do?
Childlike: You know what? I think I will. And here I was looking for a place to sleep, not a place to work. Then again, I think I will be able to do both this time.
Leprechaun: This time? Where are you from, girl?
Childlike: I hail from Nowhere, I’ve lived a while in Noneofyourbusiness and I’ve been here in Dumb City for two years now.
Leprechaun: … This town isn’t called Dumb City.
Childlike: From now on it is, and the other cities are all along the west coast.
Leprechaun: Oh, I see. What is your name child, so I know who to call for when I see you again?
Childlike: Noreen… My name was… IS Noreen.
The teenage girl stood up straight, stretched a little, and then set off to the police station.
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