Night Flower
In drama monologue, “Night Flower” Adel is fed up with financially providing for her mother and wishes she can live her own normal life.
ADEL: I want a new life. I want to stop having to worry about you all the time. I don’t want all my time spent in an ice cold supermarket. I feel my brain deteriorating. You know, the registers are always breaking down? They expect you to fix them. Like, how am I to know the mechanics of a register? I could push buttons, that’s what I’m paid to do – push buttons – but not fix the damn thing each time it freezes. Then I spend about ten minutes rebooting everything all while listening to some customer whining over something that ain’t my fault to begin with. I hope they fire me. I want to get fired. (beat) Should be in school, should be with people my own age gettin’ educated and doing things, normal things young people my age get up to. I got you instead. Since Grandma died, you became an infant. Running rampant, and I’m forgotten. I’m supposed to keep things going? When are you ever going to be a mother? MY MOTHER! When? All you care about is your stupid self, your good times, your all nighters, and with men younger than me, you’re raving mad! And trying to make believe you don’t have any problems when WE DO, WE DO, WE have loads of problems. And now my back! Nothing’s alright, Mom…nothing.
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In the one-act eplay, “Night Flower” Adel is woken up in the middle of the night by her mother and some random guy, causing a confrontation between the two women. 2 Women, 1 Man. Drama/Family Drama.
