Screenplay
Birds chirping. Loud orchestral music. Music stops.
Foreign speech. Water boiling. Orchestral music resumes.
Music slows, then stops. Foreign speech. Orchestra playing.
Subway in motion, clattering on track. Eerie music.
Children playing. Ominous music. High heels hitting sidewalk.
Staccato heels clicking. Car honking. Keys jangling. Door closing.
Jittery music. Water bubbling.
Electronic beeping. Delicate cracking.
Suspenseful music. Footsteps.
Full orchestra playing. Dissonant cello.
Orchestra stops. Hearty applause.
Subway train clattering. Tense music.
Water bubbling. Insistent beeping.
Light tapping. Water running. Brittle cracking.
Water dripping. Hurried footsteps. Droplets falling.
Children talking distantly. Fence rattling. Bird cawing.
Cars honking. Clicking. Gusting wind.
Fence rattling. Car honking. Child distantly shouting.
Bird chirping. Vehicle passing. Car honking.
Traffic noise.
Silence.
Harryette Mullen
Harryette Mullen is an award-winning poet, scholar, and professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Known for her inventive use of language, wordplay, and cultural critique, she is the author of numerous acclaimed collections, including S*Perm**K*T, Muse & Drudge, Recyclopedia, Sleeping with the Dictionary, and Open Leaves.
Her work explores race, gender, identity, consumer culture, and the possibilities of language, earning honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Jackson Poetry Prize, and a United States Artist Fellowship.
