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**PRINT: FRIENDS FROM CINCINNATI: Installment 24 features this part coming-of-age short by Chicago's Patrick Somerville, author of the Trouble collection of shorts out in 2006. | PAST BROADSHEETS | |
CAND/DIRE
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Todd Dills
7/21
I cannot hear the birds chirping, for today I am again the Candidate, as follows....
CAST:
CAND: Candidate for the position of Assistant to the Director of Traffic Control, Bureau of Streets and Sanitation, City of Chicago, a male of perhaps 28 years old, shaggy-haired and short, wearing a pressed business outfit.
DIRE: Director of Traffic Control, Department of Streets and Sanitation, City of Chicago, a man of perhaps sixty years, maybe more, and who can only be described as burly: thick, grey Ditka mustache, wire-framed spectacles, salt-and-pepper buzz-cut head of hair--fat as a turd.
CAND: Hello.
DIRE: So who are you, then?
CAND: I am the candidate.
DIRE: What makes you so confident?
CAND: I stand in traffic. Daily.
DIRE: Well, don't we all. This city's got some fucking problems, that's sure.
CAND: Rats.
DIRE: Tell me about it. You wouldn't believe the sight of the garbage bin out in my alley.
CAND: Oh, but I would.
DIRE: Well get the fuck out of here.
CAND: Okay.
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