A Mini-Play: Comma Girls

3-Act Play in 12 Lines

 

Jack: “Your turn, Jill. What’s your biggest fear?”

Jill: “Losing my looks.”

Jack: “But, you’re beautiful!”

Jill: “Hence my fear, Einstein.”

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Jack: He chuckles. “Rest easy, your kind of looks are ageless.”

Jill: “What kind is that?”

Jack: “Katharine Hepburn’s kind. She lived long and was always beautiful, for her age.”

Jill: “Ah yes, the quintessential Comma girl.”

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Jack: “ … What’s a Comma girl?”

Jill: “My fear of fears. I dread the day your words are said of me.”

Jack: “ … My words? What words?”

Jill: “She’s beautiful, comma, for her age.”

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