Dramatic monologue

"I don't know Fal's, he's had a screw loose ever since he became a vamp. My best guess is that some people handle immortality better than others and he was damn wrecked when he heard you were dead." I was trying to make it not seem so bad what he'd done but it freaked me out and I'd seen a lot of screwed up shit so yeah, it fucking bad. "She was a fucking horrible mother and I can't believe what she did but I didn't want her to be killed. Some medium level maiming would have been nice but…

Preface A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. Some people might find a deep and mysterious meaning in this fact and try their hardest to give themselves an answer. Every single person spends hours, days, years, even lifetimes to seek a reason to even the simplest things. Our hard work and dedication to what we believe in strengthens our pride and brightens our attitude. No matter how foolish a goal may be, the important part is the realization and discoveries made through the process. Although filled…

End of May 2015. 14 year old me hunched over my desk in the back row, waiting for my teacher to play a video demonstrating “proper satire” to our Fiction Writing class. It started with a set of parents scolding their irresponsible children for finding drugs in their bedroom; the plot was so clichè that it hardly caught my attention. Suddenly, I jumped upon hearing a middle aged man shout, “YOU’RE GONNA BE DOING A LOT OF DOOBIE ROLLING, WHEN YOU’RE LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!”. The video…

I asked softly “Yes,” he pulled me closer to him and kissed the nape of my neck. I put my hand on his chest and gently pushed away from him looking intently into his eyes. I spoke again “I love you.” The words flowed from my mouth so effortlessly that it even took me by surprise to hear them. As he looked down at me his eyes twinkled and danced in the candlelight I waited there as he seemed to deliberate I began to feel antsy and a bit panicked. Then before I could have a mental freak-out, he…

The infamous monologue in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” portrays the depressed protagonist, Macbeth, ranting about the slow progression of life, the fragile mindlessness of life, and the meaningless of life in a dramatic monologue. Facing his end, Macbeth’s view darkens as everyone around him betrays him and fall to the hands of death. The progression of life is captured in two metaphors, where Macbeth compares the past and the future in the behaviour of humankind. The tedious, slow approach of…

Ever since she was a little girl, she always knew when those specific set of tones went off on the pager that daddy had to go. She sat and thought to herself, where does daddy go when those screeching loud pitches go off in the middle of the night? Was there someone breaking into the house? Did something bad happen to her family? All she knew was that daddy had to leave and sometimes he was gone for hours on end. She was extremely eager to find out the reason for her father’s absence some nights…

had recovered from his two days of feasting the last remaining pig had finished his construction and had gotten a C.O. from the local building inspector. He felt pretty secure in his new brick house and decided to take a nap after all the work was done. About that time the big bad wolf came singing his now familiar I’ll huff and I’ll puff song, to which the third pig confidently replied: “In your ear with a quart of beer!” Understandably this ticked off the big bad wolf who begun to huff…

“Porphyria’s Lover” are dramatic monologues written by Robert Browning in 1842. Browning was a writer that knew little fame while he was alive, but has since become an important and influential author. The short stories were part of a collection of poems, Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics, which were mostly ignored while Browning was alive due to previous failure earlier in his career. This collection, along with another Bells and Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics…

Prologue Unknown POV It happened so suddenly you know. My life wasn’t the best out there but it was something. I had friends even if it was just two people. I had a roof over my head, even when the people that I lived with hated me. I had food and a job as well, though the pay isn’t the best. I was thankful for the life that I had. I wasn’t bullied too much in school. In fact most people pretended that I wasn’t even in the same room as them. I was happy because my life could have been worse. I…

Dramatic music crescendoed in the background of a sweeping view of mountains. The camera zoomed in on the leading lady, her dress billowing around her. I watched this all unfold on my television comfortably, from my favorite chair in the living room. “Mom, why do we have to watch a boring old movie?” I whined. “It’s in black and white.” She shushed me, her eyes gluded to the screen. “Quiet, this is the best part!” I settled in to the chair and before I knew it, fell asleep. Some time later, I…