Comma Girls,

3-Act Play, in 99 words or less

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

Jill: “Losing my looks.”

Jack: “But, you’re beautiful!”

Jill: “Hence my fear, Einstein.”

.   .   .

Jack 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.”

.   .   .

Jack: “ ... What’s a Comma Girl?”

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

Jack: “What words?”

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

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