31 Plays in 31 Days, #13 - "Waiting"

I've been posting a lot of scenes from part V: Mrs. Frost, mostly to prove to myself and others that I'm working on it. But I'm feeling like the majority of that piece is one huge spoiler— shockingly, even more so than part IV, which practically had a twist ending —if only because of a structural oddity it's developing where the climax is protracted and builds up over the course of many scenes. I kind of don't want to post many scenes for fear of spoiling that.

I find myself writing a lot of scenes from Mrs. Hawking's past, specifically during the course of her marriage to the Colonel. There's just so much deliciously twisted drama to be wrung from their situation, a miasma of resentment, unrequited love, and silence. I've been toying with the idea of collecting the scenes I write about it and recording them as a formal, polished audio drama about their marriage, just because I think I've gotten a lot of really good stuff out of it. It's a bit out of the tone of the normal plays, but it would be cool to be able to do something with these scenes that I'm actually pretty pleased with. Today's piece might be one of the ones I would include in such a thing. I'll have to think on this more.

( Day #13 - Waiting )