Audition Arsenal for Women in their 20's by Janet B Milstein

Author:Janet B Milstein [Milstein, Janet B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781575253961
Publisher: Smith and Kraus Inc
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Brian and Shevat

By Gabrielle Reisman

Shevat: early to mid-twenties, a romantic eccentric

Seriocomic

Shevat, pulled by a love at first sight, has fallen through the mirror suspended above Brian’s bed. The two agree to live together but things grow difficult when Shevat’s sister sends her telegrams asking her to come home. Here, Shevat explains a bit about the way Brian makes her feel to Silva, the couple’s landlord.

SHEVAT: Sometimes I smell the side of the bed where Brian sleeps. It smells like him.

[SILVA: I smell Sammie’s armchair on occasion. When I’m feeling lonely. It still smells like him. Fifteen years and it hasn’t lost the scent. It’s miraculous I think.]

I lie on his side of the bed and delve into the smell. I smell and smell and melt into the mattress. Melt right through it.

[SILVA: I used to fall asleep in that chair, for years after he left I’d curl up and fall asleep in it, God keep him.]

I can feel my skin again. I haven’t felt my skin since I was five or so. Out in the sun, y’know. With the sun and the breeze and the grass I could really feel my skin. And then it was gone. I forgot I had skin or that skin could feel. — But yesterday I woke up and it was there. It was all tingly and shimmerific. Like light was breaking through all my hair follicles. I could feel it growing. And dying. And laughing. Skin moves, it’s always moving and dancing, and laughing all over you.

[SILVA: I have felt my skin before, but it’s rare.]

I wanted to lie in bed and luxuriate all around in it. But I wanted to go outside and dance around in the sun and street-lights and water. It’s so much. I don’t know where to put it all. It’s not like drugs, you don’t feel burdenified. It’s clean, shimmering. Like I’m breaking open into light.

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