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The Recorded Confession

Thriller, the red light

  • Thriller
  • Monologue
  • 3 min
  • Female role
  • Adult
  • Advanced
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  • MOI Female role, Adult your role

Excerpt

(A room, a camera on a tripod. The red light blinks. She sits facing the lens.)

MOI

If you’re watching this, it’s because I didn’t have the courage to say it to your face. So I’m telling a camera. It’s more cowardly, I know.

The night of the 3rd, it wasn’t an accident. I was there. I saw. And I did nothing. No, worse: I erased it.

I wiped the steering wheel. I put the keys back. I let them believe he was driving alone.

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