WAKE UP BY JEFFREY LO (DOWNLOAD PDF HERE)
Darkness.
The sound of a phone alarm.
A really obnoxious phone alarm.
The sound of a THUMP!
That THUMP! was JESSAMYN snoozing her phone.
Lights up.
JESSAMYN is sitting up in bed.
JESSAMYN looks crazed.
JESSAMYN:
Curse the person who invented the alarm.
That mother fucker
Father fucker
Fucker fucker
That invented that little fuck.
Waking up is a terrible thing.
The worst.
Torture really.
Why must we force ourselves to wake up?
Why can’t the world be made in a way where we can get up when we want to?
The only pure pleasure in life is sleep.
Truly.
The only one.
And don’t tell me sex cause sex is not PURE pleasure.
Sex can come with a whole mess of problems, insecurities and scary stuff so just –
Sleep is the one.
Sleep is love.
That is not metaphor.
That is fact.
Sleep is love.
Sleep is life.
Sleep is –
The snooze alarm goes off.
JESSAMYN screams and throws her head into her pillow.
Blackout.
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