I carve the eastern Kentucky hills with my girlfriend’s hatchback. I’m following the same roads the Dukes of Hazzard drove with their 1969 Dodge Charger named General Lee. I see the rebel flag, the Dixie flag, and the Southern Cross flying from houses and small
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William C. Crawford is a photographer based in Winston-Salem, NC. ForensicForaging.com
The room is dimly lit. Most of the light comes from two spots on the actors. At downstage left, CELIA and LYMAN sit across from each other at a small table set for three. At each place setting an oversized menu. At upstage right, a
BELINDA, elderly woman, never married, a nurse. MAJORIE, her sister, also elderly, in sixties or above. Uses a cane. Also never married. A retired bus and farm truck driver. SETTING: The front porch of the two sister’s shared trailer house. Two rocking chairs, potted plants
CHARACTERS: GINA: protagonist, early twenties PAUL: ex-boyfriend of GINA, also early twenties MOTHER: of GINA MARGOT: best friend to GINA; we only hear her voice MIDDLE-AGED MAN: balding, with a paunch I. Lights up on a mostly empty stage. Center stage is a bed. GINA