Dead Metaphor by George F. Walker

Author:George F. Walker [Walker, George F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Drama, Canadian Drama
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 2015-08-14T00:00:00+00:00

SCENE 8 Condo. PARNELL and FINN.

PARNELL: He’s a great man. A man who will make a difference. A man who can create the large picture from the smallest detail. And see the smallest detail in the large picture he has created. I told him my story and he heard a million stories inside that one story. And from those million stories he came to understand the importance of my one story.

FINN: And then he hired you.

PARNELL: Yes. I’m his executive director in charge of collecting stories.

FINN: Where’s Cassie?

PARNELL: Who’s she?

FINN: She manages his campaign.

PARNELL: Well then let’s hope she’s out there somewhere doing that.

FINN: I need to contact her.

PARNELL: Why?

FINN: Do you mean what’s my story?

PARNELL: Yes. I suppose I do.

FINN: Okay, we’ll do it that way then. I’ll tell you my story and then you can tell her.

PARNELL: Will I need to embellish it to make it resonate?

FINN: No, I think it’ll resonate just fine. She wanted me to talk to a certain woman, and I did that. You can tell her this woman claims not to be interested in money, but I’m not sure I believe her.

PARNELL: Why not?

FINN: Instinct. Tell her I think they should offer her twenty thousand dollars to start, and see what she says.

PARNELL: See what who says? Cassie?

FINN: No. The woman.

PARNELL: She’ll say no. (off his look) Instinct.

FINN: Right. Cassie can call me when she’s decided what to do. (starts out) I hope you enjoy your new job.

PARNELL: I’m trying very hard to do that. He picked me off the street, you know. I was on the street just waiting to go up to him, but he approached me instead. He came right over to me and said . . . “What’s your story?”

FINN: (stopping) You were waiting for him?

PARNELL: Yes. I was going to kill him.

FINN: Really.

PARNELL: He was misrepresented to me. That happens in politics all the time apparently. I was told he was one thing when clearly he’s quite the opposite.

FINN: Does he know this?

PARNELL: That he was misrepresented?

FINN: No. That you were going to kill him.

PARNELL: Well I didn’t tell him if that’s what you’re asking. Do you think we’d have bonded like we did if he’d known that was my original intention?

FINN: Probably not.

Blackout.

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