Who said blogs have to be completely self-indulgent?
Me.
No, stop that-- in an effort to not be in a box, we're
inviting a series of Chicago writing/performing super-killers to take the helm
of the updates for a while. So get comfortable, as some of Chicago's
greatest worders set up our newly-minted plays for success.
This week, Barrel of Monkeys Company Member and budding YA
writer, Rachel Wilson!
(rachel's text starts here)....
If you're online, you know that the
zombies are coming, even though The Atlantic thinks
it's gross.
So it's morbid. So it's kind of done. We still look for
signs.
I've seen all the movies. I've read all the books, played
the games. I know how this goes. The zombies WIN. So why do we want them to
come?
My singer/songwriter friend, John Elliott, has a line that I love:
“There’s a boy for every girl at the end of the world.” Maybe it’s a lie, but I
want to believe it.
In the Zombie Apocalypse, we all have boyfriends.
The zombies aren't all about cannibalism and conspicuous
consumption and conformity. They're about being tested, about coming together
and being the ones who survive.
If we find the truck with gas, and we practice with
Grandpappy’s shotgun, and we remember that zombies can’t swim but CAN walk on
the bottom of the ocean, we might be the deserving ones who “beat this thing.”
Tif, Kurt, Megan, Leah, Bilal, and Caitlin (Mindy jumping in
for tech!) rolled a 6, and cut 8 this week. These are the plays:
•
At the "Drug Induced Cafe" in
Miami, Florida there is only one thing on the menu. - (tif harrison)
•
in heat. - (tif harrison)
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stuff we're not. - (megan mercier)
•
Writing, and Other People - (kurt
chiang)
•
Soundbitten - (bilal dardai)
•
Twelve-Point Sans Serif Catastrophe Bottle
- (bilal dardai)
•
With her mom's basement cleaned out, Leah's
old dance recital costumes make one final encore performance. In 3
movements. - (leah urzendowski)
•
A warm bowl of birds - (caitlin
stainken)
Remember: You and I might be the last ones left. The last
ones alive. And what's there to do in an empty, wrecked world except fall in
love?
---
Rachel Wilson's
debut YA novel Don't Touch recently sold to Harper Children's. It has
nothing to do with fighting dead things, but her current work in progress does.
Rachel makes theater with Barrel
of Monkeys and has played with the Neos in Picked Up, Fear, and It
Came from the Neo-Futurarium.
---
(end Rachel's text)
Thanks, Rachel! Side note; she wrote that without even
knowing that Tif had written a play about the very thing. Intuition.
3 comments:
Zombies are also driving a real estate boom.
http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/63736-zombie-proof-condos-sell-out
This is horrifying, Evan! Except for the part where people cook organic food for you 24-7. That part sounds perfect.
Congratulations on the book, Rachel. And the Zombie Post.
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