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1. [ESTHER and POLYHEDRON are doing closing duties at a cafe.]
POLYHEDRON: If he wasn’t so ominous he would be really cute.
2. [ESTHER and MAGDA seated on a trolley.]
ESTHER: But I don’t really go to poetry readings.
MAGDA: Yeah, cause you’re not toxic.
3. [KIM, ESTHER, and RATWITCH at a bar.]
KIM: I don’t want to just get into a pissing match, y’know?
ESTHER: I—
RATWITCH: But maybe it’s time to piss!
4. [ESTHER hiking.]
BONEHEAD [OS]: We could stop up there.
POLYHEDRON [OS]: My feet need a break.
5. BONEHEAD: My feet need a break.
POLYHEDRON: Esther, what do you think?
6. ESTHER: Huh?
Signed FB 6 April 2024.

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Page 1
1. [BONEHEAD and 8-BALL are on the porch of a rowhouse drinking beer.]
8-BALL: I am so ready to leave that fuckin place.
2. 8-BALL: I’ve got a stage – a um, a trial shift scheduled at Renegade next week,
3. 8-BALL: as soon as they say the word i’m walking.
4. BONEHEAD: Stodge?
5. 8-BALL: It’s like a trial shift. Working interview.
6. 8-BALL: And if Renegade doesn’t work out, I can ask Yvonne about spots at Zócalo.
BONEHEAD: Stahzh.

Page 2
1. 8-BALL: They loved me when I interviewed there a couple years ago. 
2. 8-BALL: And they just started brunch service, 
BONE: Stosh?
3. 8-BALL: so they probably need hands for that at least.
BONEHEAD: Stoh. Juh. Stohhh—
4. 8-BALL: Are you listening?
BONEHEAD: Stäwj. Yes. No.
5. BONEHEAD: Yeah, no. Sorry.
6. BONEHEAD: But fuck that place, you can work anywhere you want.
8-BALL: Amen.
[They clink their bottles together.]
Signed FB 10 July 2024.

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1. [8-BALL and RATWITCH are standing outside a rowhouse, each holding a mug. RATWITCH is standing, 8-BALL is seated on the stoop.]
8-BALL: So, what about you? How’s your love life going?
2. RATWITCH: You know, there are good—
3. RATWITCH [Placing their mug on a windowsill.] There are really kind, intelligent, deserving people out there.
4. RATWITCH: So many—thousands—who are missing out,
5. RATWITCH: On this! [They swing their leg up onto the stoop railing like a dancer stretching on a ballet barre. 8-BALL flinches in surprise.]
6. [8-BALL laughs.]
RATWITCH: [Still balancing one leg on the railing.] And it breaks my fuckin heart, y’know?
Signed FB 03/24/23.

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1. MAGDA [extending her hand to an unseen person]: Magda—I’m a failed writer.
2. MAGDA [raising a finger in objection]: Yes—well—failed writer.
3. MAGDA [holding her hands apart]: Because there’s a difference!
4. MAGDA [daintily holding her hand to her collarbone]: Me? Failed Writer.
5. MAGDA [sitting on a couch with her feet pulled up onto the cushions, one knee hugged to her chest, her head cocked to one side]: You must be confused.
See I used to be a writer. Now, I’m a failed writer.
6. [the same scene as the previous panel, but zoomed in now.]
MAGDA: Clear now?
Signed FB 19-12-21

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Page 1
1. [Exterior of the top floor of a rowhouse. One window is open, and a disembodied gloved hand sticks out, holding a lit cigarette.]
BLANCA [O.S., except their hand]: When are you two gonna just move in?
2. [8-BALL is bent over looking in the refrigerator.]
8-BALL: What, sick of me?
3. [BLANCA stands beside the windowsill.]
BLANCA: Yeah, cause we both know you’re the messy roommate.
8-BALL [O.S.] Ha.
4. BLANCA: No, but you’ve been dating for a while, and—
5. 8-BALL [holding two beer bottles, closing the refrigerator door behind them]: I’ll move in with him, but he’s gotta ask me.
6. 8-BALL [walking to BLANCA]: I’m not gonna live with someone who can’t even vocalize his desires.
Signed FB, 20.7.21

Page 2
1. [BLANCA takes a bottle in one hand and puts their cigarette in their mouth with the other.]
BLANCA: 8, that’s, c’mon.
2. BLANCA [accepting a bottle opener from 8, O.S.]: You know that’s ridiculous.
3. BLANCA [opening the bottle]: What if he’s thinking the same thing?
4. 8-BALL: Great! Then we can be immature together.
We’ve self-selected out of the decent people pool.
5. [Exterior. BLANCA and 8-BALL are framed by the window, 8-BALL standing over BLANCA’s shoulder.]
BLANCA: I guess.
8-BALL: Stasis is so comfortable.
6. 8-BALL [gesturing with their open bottle]: You know he only knows how to cook one thing?
It’s great!
Signed FB, 12.12.21

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1. [RATWITCH stands in front of a staircase.]
RATWITCH [holding up their hand, palm out]: Don’t talk to her, she’s busy being tragic.
2. [KIM stands in front of a table set with various dishes and tupperwares of food.]
KIM: Is she still in her room? I’d. I’d hoped to see her.
3. [close up on a messenger app. incoming text message.]
TEXT MESSAGE: Magda machine broke. Please proceed to the next available service window.
4. [8-BALL sits on the couch, arms folded tight across chest.]
8-BALL: Like she’s the only one with problems. Like ghosting all your friends isn’t— Because like—
5. [ESTHER stands outside holding a cup.]
ESTHER: I dragged myself across town, baked for the first time in months to have something to bring, and she can’t even walk downstairs into her own living room for …
6. [ESTHER crushes the cup in her hand. tears well in her eye.]
ESTHER: For like one minute? I miss—
Signed FB 4-7-21

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1. TEXT: I want to gag.
[a skeleton sitting at a table with a drink.]
2. TEXT: You ever hear of this thing called a choke pear?
[POLYHEDRON doing push ups.]
3.TEXT: It’s a weird pseudo-historical device. Unclear if it was ever actually used for torture.
[a chokepear]
4. TEXT: It goes in your mouth.
[ESTHER stands in a grocery aisle.]
5. TEXT: I’m so hungry, and nothing in here could make me full.
[ROLLO person checks his mailbox.]
6. TEXT: I’m so hungry all the damn time.
[MAGDA sits, with her fist against the side of her head, at one end of a table. in the foreground, the skeleton hand with the drink from the first panel is visible.]
Signed FB 20-6-21

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1. [A person with a RATWITCH for a head stands on a balcony.]
2. RATWITCH: Sometimes, I want to come at these jobs like a pack of dogs.
3. RATWITCH: I fantasize about applying to every one of these low-to-no-paying jobs.
Jobs for asshole companies—jobs I don’t even want.
4. RATWITCH: Going to the interviews, then getting an offer, and turning it down.
“Sorry, I won’t work for a company who so openly disrespects me in their job posting.”
5. RATWITCH: As if I’d even GET an offer!
6. RATWITCH: As if I’d even get an INTERVIEW!
7. RATWITCH: Shit.
Signed FB 8/23/2020

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1. [Two people, one whose body is invisible, BLANCA, and one whose body is entirely a glossy black, 8-BALL, are in a living room. 8-BALL stands, pouring wine into BLANCA’S mug.]
BLANCA: This can’t sustain.
2. 8-BALL: What, our drinking?
The pandemic that’s driving us to it?
3. 8-BALL [pouring wine into their own mug]: The whole-ass state that’s on fire, and refuses to do controlled burns?
4. 8-BALL: The hotter and hotter years that will eventually render even controlled burns useless?
5. 8-BALL: The whole wretched capitalist system and the stupid moribund world it’s given us?
BLANCA: No.
6. BLANCA: Me being single. I need to get laid, dude.
Signed FB 9/30/2020

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1. [ESTHER stands at the corner of an intersection, beside a bus stop sign.]
TEXT: I went out to the Wissahickon (alone.)
2. [ESTHER is riding the bus.]
TEXT: Packed a couple of the brownies I baked yesterday (for only me to eat.)
3. [ESTHER stands beside the Wissahickon creek at the trailhead by the bus stop. A large viaduct bridge breaks through the trees in the background.]
4. [ESTHER walks along the trail in  a heavily wooded area]
TEXT: Maybe I’ll go to that bar on Poplar tonight (alone.)
5. [ESTHER stops beside a sign where the trail splits in two directions.]
TEXT: That stupid parenthetical plagues me.
6. [ESTHER from only the shoulders up, leaning forward.]
TEXT: I can’t do anything nice for myself without the reminder that I’m doing it (alone.)
Signed FB 27-7-21