A Decent Playwright : Writing

Balanced/Unbalanced

Balanced/Unbalanced

A Stage Play by A Decent Playwright


College student Aubrey has tragic news to break to her best friend Ryan’s mother, Mrs. Murray, over a game of Jenga, but Mrs. Murray’s unb..
What Love Does

What Love Does

A Poem by A Decent Playwright


An extended metaphor about the terrifying vulnerability of love
The Bus Home

The Bus Home

A Poem by A Decent Playwright


For a special someone- not like that, but the feeling is no less intense for being purely platonic
Cosmic Ink, or Major Tom's Soliloquy

Cosmic Ink, or Major Tom's Soliloquy

A Poem by A Decent Playwright


Not enough out there in the same vein as Rocketman - Elton John, or Space Oddity - David Bowie. A piece about an astronaut, nervous and alone.
The Central Park of a Cruise Ship

The Central Park of a Cruise Ship

A Poem by A Decent Playwright


What kind of life is a cruise ship for a tree, an organism so unused to motion and dependent on a predictable set of seasons? For a bee, built for bio..
Pearl

Pearl

A Poem by A Decent Playwright


The occasional sense that the most central part of ourselves is wrong
Algae Bloom

Algae Bloom

A Poem by A Decent Playwright


Thinking about eutrophication, and how if there are too many nutrients algae will grow so much, it kills everything around it, and how the algae has n..
Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare

A Stage Play by A Decent Playwright


Two very different friends learn about themselves and each other, weathering their relationship through hard times through the lens of childhood game ..