A Mini-Play: Naked Pictures

3-Act Play in 12 Lines

Jill: “I think philosopher Jean Paul Sartre was right.”

Jack: “The ‘Hell is other people’ guy?”

Jill: “Yeah, I wish I was an Other-People like my boss, Sheldon, instead of a Me-me like me. I’d raise enough hell to make his fire and brimstone feel like heaven!”

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Jack: “I gotta say I’m with Aesop on this one, pal.”

Jill: “The ‘Be careful what you wish for’ guy?”

Jack: “Yeah, wishes inevitably lead to unintended consequences, you know, like getting your backside fired.”

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Jill: She blows air up her nostrils. “...What’s a girl to do?”

Jack: “I’d try a Winston Churchill if I were you. He stripped Other People of their power by picturing them naked.”

Jill: “Nah, I do that all the time, it never works. Sheldon looks like Brad Pitt.”

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