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monologue mania day # 228 by janet s. tiger  a birthday unpresent (c) sept. 28, 2014

9/28/2014

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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monologue Mania Day # 227 by Janet S. Tiger Fault Lines Sept. 27, 2014  
                                                                      
                                     
Fault Lines
(for Crime)                               
                 A monologue by Janet S. Tiger  
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              (An older man comes onstage with a handkerchief in his hand.)

Whose fault was it? Why did Bertha have to die?  I asked her to marry me.  More than once.  At first, she said she couldn't because Jeffrey had just died the year before.  

So I waited.  And then she said she was too busy to think about marriage.  Then she was getting too old.

And I finally just asked her to move in with me.  Modern like.  Like the kids do. Or I'd move in with her.  Either way.

She just laughed and said she was too old for all that.

So I watched her take chances with all those young kids, bums most of them.  There for a few weeks, months.  then...gone.

But she wouldn't take a chance with me.  

So one of them, one of those bums, kills her.

Not a surprise.  And the sheriff tells me...(imitates)  'it's not your fault, Toby, not your fault.'

Hell, I know it wasn't my fault.  But if it wasn't my fault, why do I feel so guilty?  Why do I think if I'd gotten her to marry me, or even just move in, she would still be alive.

           (He turns to walk offstage, stops, looks back)

If it's not my fault, why does it hurt so much?

           (He exits.  Not the end ....of pain)



-------------------------------------- Janet S. Tiger    858-736-6315 www.JanetSTiger.weebly.com Member Dramatists Guild since 1983 Playwright-in-Residence Swedenborg Hall 2006-8 --------------------------------------------------------
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