The Sleeper//A Prologue

Authors note:

The Sleeper is a one act play written by Catherine Butterfield. It is set post-9/11 and centers around a security mom who is married to a business man and takes care of her two children, Max and Mariah. She has an older sister named Vivian who she's close to - yet they have their differences. Her name is Gretchen Nicolas, and the world that she has thought to be safe and secure gets torn apart when she meets a young man who begins to tutor her son in math. They begin to have an affair, and Gretchen finds out a lot more about the young man, Matthew, than she could have ever imagined. Little by little, she is led to believe that he is a terrorist with a fake identity. Her paranoia sends her into a frantic state one night - leading her to purchase a pistol, and evidently kill her sister, and her husband, Bill, who had been having an affair for practically Gretchen's whole marriage.

I do not claim having wrote this story - nor do I claim any ownership of the characters.

However, I have decided to give each character some background.