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Missing,ashortplay
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 MISSING
 A short play
By
Dale Andersen27702 Crown Valley PkwySuite 117, D-4Ladera Ranch, CA 92694562-508-5820http://www.scribd.com/daleandersen/email addressandersen.dale@gmail.com  ©2008Cast of CharactersLouise………Female, early thirties, scruffy Martin………………Male, late thirties, scruffy
 
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(Morning. Downtown Fargo. Cold & crisp.We’re on a street corner outside a blown-up 7-Eleven. Yellow “Police Line – Keep Out” tape. Inside the police tape, LOUISE in grubby clothes and a stocking cap. She’s picking up bits of debris, examining each  bit, then depositing it in a garbage bag. A  pouch hangs from her belt. She hums. MARTIN enters, stops at the tape, sees her and looks surprised. She senses someone’swatching. She stops, straightens up, turns)
LOUISE: Well well. Marty Dean. MARTIN:Louise, you’re alive! Thank God you’re alive.LOUISE:‘Course I’m alive. Why wouldn’t I be? MARTIN:Terrible thing. Terrible. You should consider yourself very, very lucky.LOUISE:Yup. That’s me. Lucky Louise. Lucky Louise, despite Inever won a MegaBucks jackpot. Never even won a piddlylittle Daily Scratcher. MARTIN:I meant you’re lucky to be.LOUISE:I know what you meant, Marty. MARTIN:Eyewitness News said it was a first. First 7-Elevenexplosion ever in Fargo. First 7-Eleven explosionanywhere in North Dakota for that matter.LOUISE:I’ll give you something else that’s a first. Firsttime for me without a job.
 
Missing,ashortplay
3 MARTIN: Abdul’s not giving you your job back?LOUISE:It only blew up two days ago. I just don’t see thestore back up and standing tall anytime soon. MARTIN:But he did promise you your job back.LOUISE:Hasn’t been discussed, Marty. MARTIN:That is very wrong. He shouldda notified you pronto.You’re a key person. You know where all the stuff is.LOUISE: Which is really useful. What with all the stuffscattered all over the sidewalk. MARTIN:Speaking of that. I saw on Eyewitness News where Abdulsaid he was looking for volunteers to help clean up.LOUISE:So? MARTIN:So here I am. Volunteering. You know what thecommercial says. Like a good neighbor.LOUISE: Well, neighbor, as usual, you’re a day late and adollar short. Abdul’s cleanup was yesterday. MARTIN:Yesterday? So how come you still got a mess?LOUISE: We still got a mess ‘cause not many so-called neighbors showed up.
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lunaticscreenwriter

Good news. There will be an off-Broadway reading of Missing on October 16th at the Directors Company on 43rd Street. For more info, go to this link >>> http://www.wix.com/betweenusproductio...

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daleandersen

Good news! Missing was a winner in Theatre In The Raw's one-act playwrighting contest >>> http://tinyurl.com/theatre-in-the-raw

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