Lights up on the stage. We see LIZ and SVEN sitting down next to each other on the floor, center of the stage. There's a table with two chairs around it and two on top, stacked on top of each other, all in the far back.
LIZ: He said, "Control your nosebleeds." So, I said the only logical thing.
SVEN: "I'm sorry for I have sinned."
LIZ: No. I said, "Well, excuse me, Mr. Anime Man. Next time, I'll be sure to hold it in and drown in my own blood like a fucking maniac! Have a good day."
SVEN: You'd like that.
LIZ: It would be cool to feel it, moving inside me.
SVEN: Everything moves inside you.
LIZ: That's the fun of it. A lot of things move in life.
SVEN: Water.
LIZ: Liquid.
SVEN: A snake.
LIZ: Long and slippery. Normal.
SVEN: The world.
LIZ: Kind of weirdly shaped, sure.
SVEN: My aunt May's fake hip.
LIZ: Prosthetic?
SVEN: Made out of dead people's bones.
LIZ: Sure. Was she the one who studied hormones and teenager shit?
SVEN: I'm not into science. Yes. I think she just liked exploding stuff.
LIZ: Explains the hip.
SVEN: Yeah. But it also explains why she was so sex crazy, I guess. I heard working so closely to those was the problem.
LIZ: Can that even happen? Is the world okay? Who am I asking, it's not.
SVEN: You can't trust doctors. Or the government. Or folding chairs. Or hormonal teenagers.
LIZ: We're hormonal, and maybe teenagers.
SVEN: You, not so much.
LIZ: I like to think of it as my funny little quirk.
SVEN: I also have my funny little quirk. Wait. Oh, yes.
LIZ: And how's your head?
SVEN: I haven't had any complaints.
LIZ: Is it comfortable?
SVEN: Depends. He liked it.
LIZ: Huh.
SVEN: Have you ever thought about celibacy?
LIZ: Sure. I've thought that it's just another regular thing that religion turned toxic.
SVEN: But you have.
LIZ: Definitely. When you get told that you're actually practising celibacy on the daily, you hear the name quite a bit.
SVEN: What's that like?
LIZ: I don't think it's bad. Like, not "string cheese" bad. Tried it once. Did not enjoy the experience. Who even thought to put cheese on a fucking string?
SVEN: You don't mind.
LIZ: I'm neutral on it. But if you want to do it, I'm not stopping you. You treasure your body, so just do it.
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A kid's curiosity
Non-FictionThis is not a masterpiece. This is conversation. And what you talk about with your friends and don't tell your parents. It's nothing else than a human mind. Week-day afternoons turned into storms of nonsense, insults, stupid one-liners and teenagers...
