Saturday, October 11, 2008

Act 3 Scene 1

Narcissa has slumped onto the bar top, she had fainted from drinking too much. A wine bottle tips over and spills wine all over her. Andrew walks in and drops his rag in shock.

Andrew: Cissy, wake up. Wake up.

He shakes her, but she doesn't wake up. Then, he steps back in disgust. He realises he does not love her any more. Andrew drags her dead body to a butcher's dump. Where bones of butchered animals, and bits of their rotting flesh lay. And he dumps here there.

Andrew: Just where your husband died. Filthy, lying, bitch. Daughter of pigs.

He spits on her face and walks away. Narcissa wakes up, and sees where she is. She tries to get up but is too weak. She calls for Andrew but he has long gone. She realises she is alone, and falls over, dead.

Act 3 Scene 2

It's is the next day, and the townspeople have gathered around the butcher's dump in a huddle. They have seen Narcissa's hand, only recognisable by the rosary she wears. The butcher and his men push through and pull her body out onto the street. The townspeople draw the sign of the cross on themselves, as the expression on her face is only comparable to that of the devil.

Gentlewoman: I think, a funeral. Just like her husband's. A red rose wreath, on a mahogany coffin, and we'll lay her to rest beside him.

She turns to cry on the shoulder of her husband. The spotlight shines on the old woman.

Old woman: So that was the end of Micheal and Narcissa Black. And Andrew, well it was the first, and last relationship he ever had with a woman. He continued with his duties as a bartender-

Scene shows Andrew at work, serving drinks with a sorrowful expression to laughing people.

Old woman: for about 10 years, and then, something strange. He was cast out of town, as a pedophile. But he still lived on the borders, capturing little boys and girls who wandered too far from home. He killed them all, and burned them in an oven. He threw their ashes into the butcher's meat, and poisoned the food the townspeople ate. Until one day-

Scene shows Andrew carrying an urn to a holder in the midst of heavy machinery. He trips, and falls into a machine, and out comes meat, blood, and pieces of cloth.

Old woman: Some say the butcher suspected something, and threw the lot away. Others say the meat was sold, and the most imaginative of the lot said it was made into the dinner they served that night at a bar, to Narcissa and Micheal Blacks' ghosts.-

Scene shows Narcissa and Micheal Black clinking glasses of wine, and being served their dinner.

Old Woman: But everyone agreed that the day after, a strange chill came over the town, and no one slept. And they all saw a sight to behold. A man wandering the streets in the middle of the night, carrying an urn.

-The End-

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