{"id":437,"date":"2019-04-13T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/?p=437"},"modified":"2019-04-17T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:59:39","slug":"alex-is-missing-an-excerpt-from-my-punk-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/2019\/04\/13\/alex-is-missing-an-excerpt-from-my-punk-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex is Missing &#8211; An Excerpt from my Punk Play!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is an excerpt from my alt-underground play Alex is Missing, a play about four crusty clubbers looking for their missing friend in the underground world of the concrete jungle, as they wade through wage workers, drug dealers, crazy parents, and all of the other underground chaos that makes up their lives on the edge.<\/i><\/p>\n<pre>      \n         LORI\n   (Leaning on her hands)\nI can't believe all of this booze is gone already.\n\n         SKYE\nYou can't? It's Casey after all.\n\n   LORI\nWell, Jessica and I helped.\n\n         SKYE\nJessica's still a lightweight.\n\n         LORI\nShe's getting better at it.\n   (Sits back - Looks around the room)\nI swear, there's simply no way I'll ever be\nable to find roommates who aren't total flakes.\nOh yeah, before I forget, Annie was also here \nlast night. She wanted to know if you know where\nAlex is.\n\n         SKYE\nAnnie?\n\n         LORI\nAnnie.\n\n         SKYE\nWhich Annie?\n\n         LORI\nUsed to have a mohawk Annie.\n\n         SKYE\nWhich used to have a mohawk Annie?\n\n         LORI\nThe one that goes out with Jason.\n\n         SKYE\nWhich used to have a mohawk Annie that goes \nout with a Jason?\n\n         LORI\nYou know, coke Annie. The one that had the \nwhite nose at the Mabuhay.\n\n         SKYE\nOkay, yeah.\n\n<i>LORI stands up and fishes out one of the beers \nSKYE has brought over.<\/i>\n\n         LORI\nAnnie is probably looking for Alex because \nshe wants to score some speed. \n\n         SKYE\nNo way. Annie knows Danny Boy. She wouldn't \nneed to go through Alex.\n\n         LORI\n   (Sitting back down)\nHuh. That's weird. She really wanted to find her.\n\n<i>SKYE stands up and walks over to the table to get a beer.<\/i>\n\n         SKYE\nMaybe Alex owes her money.\n\n<i>A boisterous CASEY enters stage right with a large bag of booze,\nfollowed by JESSICA. CASEY is a tall, impressive woman with wild\nblack hair. She wears black jeans, a black t-shirt, black boots,\nand a black leather jacket. JESSICA has short and unnaturally\ncolored hair. (Bright green, shocking blue, whatever's your poison,)\nand is wearing black jeans with a white band t-shirt.<\/i>\n\n         CASEY\nHey you losers! Time to get this party started!\n\n         SKYE\nWhat the fuck Casey?\n\n<i>CASEY walks stage left and puts the bag down on the table while\nJESSICA sits down on the couch.<\/i>\n\n         SKYE\nHow you doin' Jessica?\n\n         JESSICA\n   (Groans)\nStill getting over Gilman last night.\n\n         LORI\nHungover?\n\n<i>CASEY takes a bottle out of her bag and sits \ndown at the table across from Lori.<\/i>\n\n         CASEY\nShe ran into her ex Jake.\n\n         JESSICA\nHe's not my ex.\n\n         SKYE\nYou went out with Jake?\n\n         JESSICA\nWe didn't go out.\n\n         LORI\nBut you were swapping spit with him at \nSpider's party last week.\n\n         CASEY\nI think he's heartbroken.\n\n         JESSICA\nWe just made out at a party.\n\n         SKYE\nI thought you two were going out.\n\n         JESSICA\nNo, everyone thinks that because they saw us\neating each other's faces at Spider's!\n\n         CASEY\nYou should've seen the look on his face.\n   (Strikes dramatic pose)\nIt was a pained look of utter desperation!\n\n         JESSICA\n   (Stands up)\nIf you really want to know Jake was more\ninterested in finding Alex than anyone else.\n\n         SKYE\nFinding Alex? Tweaker Alex?\n\n<i>JESSICA walks over to the dining room table \nand grabs a beer.<\/i>\n\n         JESSICA\nYeah. She's his speed connec'.\n\n         SKYE\nHuh.\n\n         LORI\nCasey, did you guys really polish off all \nthat booze by yourself?\n\n         CASEY\nHell no. 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