What are you doing here at this hour?
Drama/Sci-Fi scene from the short play, “Unknown Pieces” where Dana talks about a friend that was captured to be put to rest.
Town alarm stops sounding.
TESSY: (sighs relief) Oh, finally, that dreadful sound.
Dana, a mail carrier approaches Tessy’s doorstep.
DANA: Evening, Mam.
TESSY: Is that you, Dana?
DANA: Howdy, Mam.
TESSY: What are you doing here at this hour?
Dana hands her mail.
DANA: Haven’t you heard the news?
TESSY: What news?
DANA: That alarm going off today was no false alarm.
TESSY: It wasn’t?
DANA: That was a real alarm.
TESSY: It wasn’t a test?
DANA: No, Mam. It was discovered that Leonard Japhy was sent in.
TESSY: Oh, my…Leonard Japhy?
DANA: It’s a crying shame.
TESSY: What’s going to happen to him?
DANA: He fell unconscious and they transferred him over to a special unit where they’re running a bunch of tests on him. Doesn’t look good.
TESSY: That’s the fourth one this month.
DANA: Yep.
TESSY: But when are they ever going to get their act together over there, Dana?
DANA: Not easy to say. There’s a lot of hush hush going on.
TESSY: Leonard Japhy wasn’t the overachiever type. Why him?
DANA: Must have been doing better than we thought.
TESSY: But he didn’t seem to be doing all that fantastic. I only spoke with his wife not two weeks ago and she told me all about how they were keeping everything even.
DANA: Perhaps they’ve lowered the bar.
TESSY: We weren’t informed.
DANA: You and I both know the rules are always changing.
TESSY: Makes one feel as though nobody’s safe.
DANA: (sadly) Sure does.
TESSY: (concerned) Are you okay? Would you like some freshly made iced tea?
DANA: I better not.
TESSY: You sure?
DANA: …I knew Japhy.
TESSY: Oh, I’m so sorry Dana.
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In the one act eplay Unknown Pieces, Tessy gets visited by Dana, a mail carrier who has surprisingly sad information to share regarding their post-apocalyptic reality. 3 Women, 1 Man. Drama/Science Fiction.