CAST
MARTA: (my sister)
VERONICA: (me, obviously)
SET: In our living room.
(MARTA and VERONICA sit across from each other in the living room with Masterchef on in the background. MARTA is painting her toe nails, VERONICA sits with her laptop in front of her staring at a blank screen)
VERONICA: I don’t know what to write about.
(MARTA shrugs. VERONICA keeps looking at her, and after a while MARTA looks back and shrugs again)
VERONICA: Crap.
MARTA: Make something up.
VERONICA: I’m trying to, but I can’t think of what to write about. (pause) Give me a theme, or an idea.
MARTA: (shrugs) I don’t know. Fairy tales.
(pause)
MARTA: Write a fairy tale, about a hunchback.
(silence)
MARTA: What was the hunchback from The Hunchback of Notre Dame called?
VERONICA: Quasimodo.
MARTA: Oh yeah. (uncontrollable laughter)
VERONICA: What?
MARTA: (among the laughter) You used to look like him.
VERONICA: Thanks a lot!
MARTA: (still laughing.) No! No! In that portrait. You look so deformed! (sighs as she controls the laughter) We both do actually.
VERONICA: Yeah right.
Portrait Marta is speaking of
THE END
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