I feel more alive today than yesterday.

Drama scene from the play Birds of the Storm. Sharon comes home after nearly dying in a car accident that Walker doesn’t seem impressed by.

Featured Scene – Birds of the Storm

WALKER: You know that heavy rainstorm we had?

SHARON: Yes, I nearly drowned.

WALKER: What? When?

SHARON: This morning.

WALKER: Right. It was—

SHARON: It was coming down buckets, and I was driving really, really, slowly around that turn near the red barn—

WALKER: And as—

SHARON: And as slow as I was going, the car started to skid.

WALKER: No!

SHARON: Yes. Yes, it started sliding off the road. The tires hit the grass, and the car flipped over and started sliding down the hill to the pond, and there we were, in the pond, floating together, me and the car, floating, and all was quiet… Things were peaceful…silent…but then there was this wind, this violent wind that pushed us back onto land. I hit down on the acceleration, and we were pulled completely out of the water.

WALKER: Are you alright?

SHARON: I nearly drowned.

WALKER: Car alright?

SHARON: It’s running fine.

WALKER: That explains it then. I went into your car to look for my keys, and when I found them, they were—there was, uh, moss, there was moss tangled up.

SHARON: That’s weird.

WALKER: Why?

SHARON: Because those weren’t your keys.

WALKER: How’d you figure?

SHARON: Your keys are over on the table there.

WALKER: What do you mean?

Walker stands up and takes hold of his keys.

He goes into his pocket and pulls out another set of keys.

Then what are these?

SHARON: Maybe from the pond.

WALKER: Really? Why would there be keys in the pond?

SHARON: Stranger things have happened.

WALKER: Are you sure you’re alright then?

SHARON: My shoulder is bruised, but I feel more alive today than yesterday.

WALKER: You sure?

SHARON: I am sure, Walker.

WALKER: Well, you won’t believe what happened to me.

SHARON: Go on—

WALKER: I was sitting, facing out the window, and this fly kept

hammering the windowpane, trying to get in…

SHARON: Go on.

WALKER: I was havin’ a smoke. I could see he was desperate; he was angry that I wouldn’t open the window, so I let him in, out from the rain. I wasn’t going to allow him inside for long. It was simply to keep my eye on him. But as soon as I looked away, he had vanished. Gone.

I stood up and searched for him. Everywhere.

I thought perhaps the rain had killed him, and his last breath was here in this place. And his remains was here, somewhere in this room. I sat back down. I made peace with it. Until I noticed a shadow from the corner of my eye, he was sitting right on top of my left hand. I froze and stared directly at him; he looked up at me with the coldest eyes and bit me, then flew away.

SHARON: I don’t believe you.

WALKER: Look at my hand; he bit right on the vain. It’s all red!

Sharon inspects WALKER’S hand.

SHARON: It is red.

WALKER: You see that? BIT ME.

SHARON: This has never happened to you before.

WALKER: Never.

SHARON: You should have let him in the window sooner, Walker.

WALKER: I wasn’t trying to hurt him.

SHARON: He was drowning out there.

WALKER: I suppose he was.

SHARON: You anticipated, knowing it would cause harm to a lower species, and it got its revenge.

WALKER: It did.

SHARON: Serves you right.

WALKER: Yes…

SHARON: Now that it got its revenge, you no longer need to worry.

WALKER: Hmm.

SHARON: I nearly drowned this morning. I was floating away in a pond, nearly died.

WALKER: But you’re here—

SHARON: I am.

WALKER: And you’re fine.

SHARON: If I didn’t have to go out and get your meds, I wouldn’t have had the accident. You’re always leavin’ it up to me, Walker. You need to learn how to labor for yourself. I nearly died. The car was sinking, and I was inside it. But I couldn’t imagine what would have happened to me if I had stayed here, if that fly had bitten me and not you. I couldn’t imagine it, watching a fly bury its fangs into my flesh.

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Scene Summary

In the one act eplay Birds of the Storm, Sharon talks to Walker about how she just survived a car accident while making her way back home.

• Genre: Drama
• Length: ~5 minute scene
• Characters: 1 woman, 1 man
• Themes: family drama
• Best For: drama scenes for acting school

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Scene Source: Birds of the Storm

Birds of the Storm is a drama play by Joseph Arnone, 2025.