copyright © 2003 Scott McGee

FORCED ENTRY

by Scott McGee

 

Woman

I never feel safe when I’m alone now. Every noise makes me jump and look behind me like there’s someone there. I lock the door when I get in, and I check it like three or four times before I feel like it’s really locked. Even then, I don’t trust it.

I worry about the windows, the balcony door, everything. I even worry about the damn fireplace. It’s ridiculous. I mean I know it’s stupid to be so damn worried… but I can’t help it. Not anymore. Not after what he did to me.

What he took from me…can’t be replaced.

You know… I… I just get so scared now. I can still feel his hands on me. His cold, clammy hands all over me. His breath against my neck. Hot and soulless. And I keep reliving that moment in my mind. That moment he… did that to me.

He knew I was drunk. He knew that I didn’t know what I was doing. He took advantage of me. And he knew it. He knew it all along. And he didn’t care. He didn’t care about me. He didn’t care about what he was doing.

He just did it.

He ruined me.

And now… and now… I’ll never be able to trust … anyone… ever again. Ever.

I’ll never be the same. I’ll never recover.

He took that from me.

He TOOK that away from me.

He took my … my… mortality.

Goddamn vampires.

Count

She invited me into her house.

I drank her blood ONCE... and now she never calls.

What a bitch.

 

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DIRECTING NOTE: Since this piece has a big surprise or twist at the end, it is very important that the COUNT be as ambiguous a character as possible. He should just be an "evil man" as far as the audience knows. Then when he speaks (with a thick Transylvanian accent), the audience has the realization of who he really is along with what the WOMAN was actually talking about.

Also, both times this piece was performed, the COUNT started way upstage while the WOMAN sat downstage in a chair. As the WOMAN continued her speech, the COUNT slowly walked towards her. Creeping towards her the entire time, until when she says the line "He ruined me." the COUNT puts his hands softly on her shoulders and she reacts. This created a nice, somber, eerie, uncomfortable tone to the piece until finally the "twist" is revealed and the audience is let off the hook to laugh or storm the stage.

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