The Mirror
Supernatural, half a second
- Supernatural
- Monologue
- 2 min
- Female role
- Adult
- Intermediate
Casting
6 lines- MOI Female role, Adult your role
Excerpt
(A bathroom at night. She avoids looking at the mirror straight on.)
MOI
It started on Tuesday. A wave of the hand, and in the mirror, the hand follows. A touch too late. Half a second. The kind of detail it takes you three days to admit to yourself.
So I ran tests. Like a scientist. Raise the arm. Smile. Switch the light off and back on, very fast.
At first, the delay waited for me politely. Now… now, sometimes, she has finished smiling before I have.
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