Sunday, January 25, 2009

Week One, Day Six - "Spin Cycle"

“SPIN CYCLE”
(Inspired by Cassandra Soliday)
Written by Joe Janes

FULL CAST:
Six-to-Eight People

(Lights up on a group of people in a tight circle on the floor. They are laughing and having a good time. Some people are drinking. A few may be standing or crouching. We hear what seems to be a bottle spinning on the floor. The bottle stops and the group starts tauntinglingly pointing and ooh-ing and aw-ing at a girl in the circle, upstage. The girl rolls her eyes and grabs the “bottle,” revealing it to be a gun she picks up and holds to her head. Everyone goes silent. She pulls the trigger and we hear a “click” sound. There is a slight pause. Everyone cheers as the girl puts the gun back on the floor and spins it again. Lights fade)

8 comments:

idjar said...

A long barrel .357 magnum might just sound like a bottle when it's spinning.

Maybe I'm just being dumb, but, um, what happened to Saturday's entry?

Joe Janes said...

This is Saturday's entry. I posted after midnight.

Old Ned said...

Congrats on making it through your first week. It was nice and darkly humorous. Keep up the good work!

Henri Dugas IV said...

I heard a song on the radio today that would be a good background. No name, but the lyrics went "...Russian roulette is no fund without bullets.."

Coincidence that I waited til today to read this?

Throb Fastoff said...

That's fuckin' awesome.

Joe Janes said...

Thanks, "Throb."

Faith Pheterson said...

JOE! This is so morbid!

Joe Janes said...

It's more like how I wish it had been the one and only time I played spin the bottle in junior high.