Inspiration 7.0

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

HEIDI! We (and I believe you know the 'we' I refer to) need to have a reading of this. In costume. Or we should just put on the damn play. I command it and it will be so.

SPEEDY
Go to hell, Bill.
(to audience)
Bill never tires of mocking my circumstances.

That is cracking me up. My insides her from suppression. "Bill never tires of mocking my circumstances." If Speedy can be played by a girl, I want that part. I want to say that line. I'm going to think that line all the way home.

Poor toys and their missing Daisy.

ANGEL
All you have left is us. We have each other.

SPEEDY
I'm not sure that's enough.

That's terrific. Abandonment: by parent. By God. By any loved one, etc. It doesn't always matter that there are others when the One you want isn't there.

Brava. Let's put on a show!

(Funnily enough, you mentioned that the similarities in our approach, and just this morning I was thinking of expanding my piece for the stage, or a longer story in which the stage is set...)