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The Baby Monitor

Thriller, a voice singing

  • Thriller
  • Monologue
  • 2 min
  • Female role
  • Adult
  • Intermediate
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  • MOI Female role, Adult your role

Excerpt

(A bedroom, at night. A woman stares at a crackling baby monitor.)

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3:10 a.m. The monitor woke me. Usually it’s crying. This time, it was a voice. Soft. Singing.

I told myself: the radio, interference, the neighbour. Except the voice knew the lullaby. OUR lullaby. The one I’ve only ever sung here, in the dark, to my daughter.

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