First Place: Ten-Minute Play/Screenplay
Green Eyes Kylie Tillman
ACT ONE INT. SULLIVAN HOME LIVING ROOM - NIGHT A disheveled, dark living room, lit by the glow of the TV and desktop computer monitor. Old plates and trash litter the coffee table. Tom, 41, balding, lounges in his recliner, absentmindedly watching TV and drinking beer. Tom’s wife, Nancy, 37, squat and unkempt, sits hunched at the computer scrolling through social media and drinking whiskey straight from the bottle. NANCY: (hollers over her shoulder) Look Tom, the Smiths from down the street got a new dog. TOM: (mumbles) Huh... How ‘bout that? NANCY: (still scrolling) They couldn’t even take care of the one they had. Now two? Geez Louise! Nancy suddenly stops scrolling, we can see from her expression that she is immediately indignant. On the monitor we see a woman about the same age as Nancy, grinning with her arms around a young girl. The caption reads: MY BABY WON THE SPELLING BEE! NANCY: (CONT’D) This bitch...Rubbing in yet another thing our Maggie never got the opportunity to grow up and do. Another thing we will miss... TOM: Nancy get off that computer. All it does is piss you off and I have to hear about it. 102 Inscape 2019
