[I did finish the story and made it into a short two act play. I'm including it here since it wouldn't fit in my other blog. I'm seperating it by act. Enjoy.]

Characters
H – Female
I – Male
C – Male
B – Either Gender
J – Either Gender


ACT ONE: Five people are sitting on boxes strewn randomly over the stage. Behind them there is a white curtain with lighted images appearing and disappearing continuously, at first vary few images.

H: [looking behind at the curtain at the images] Did you see that?

J: See what?

H: [Pointing at the image on the curtain] That. Did you see that?

J: Maybe, what is it? [Goes close to the image to examine it]

H: [Walking over to B] Do you see this over here?

B: [Looking back and nodding] Yeah, but I haven’t given it much attention.

H: What do you think it is?

B: It’s all the same thing.

H: What is?

B: What you’re talking about.

H: But what is it? [Another image appears on the curtain] Oh, look there’s another.

B: It’s the same thing.

H: [Going close to examine the image] It doesn’t look like the other.

B: Appearances mean nothing.

H: And what makes you so sure?

B: [Shows the other an open hand] See my hand?

H: [Nodding] Yeah.

B: [Closes his hand into a fist] Do you see my fist?

H: [Nodding] Yeah.

B: Well, it’s all the same thing.

H: [Shaking his head] I’m not convinced.

B: You’re not looking closely enough.

[H goes and moves his box closer to the curtain and he sits down facing the curtain. J leaves the image to talk to C who is sitting facing the audience]

J: [To C] You should take a look at this.

C: What? Why?

J: Which one?

C: Which what?

J: What or why?

C: [Confused] What?

J: Well, there are these things over there [Pointing at the curtain].

C: OK, so?

J: They may be important?

C: OK [turns around]. Oh wow. [He gets up to take a closer look] What is it?

J: I don’t know, but there is another one over there. [Pointing at the other image]

C: Amazing! [Walks over to the other image and gets in the way of H]

H: Do you mind?

C: Oh sorry. [Walks back over to J] What could these be?

J: I don’t know?

C: How long have they been here?

J: I don’t know. [Pointing at H] She told me about them.

C: Who told her?

J: I don’t know.

C: Maybe they’ve always been here?

J: No, this one came after that one. [Pointing at the two according images]

C: So at one point there was nothing here and then poof, it’s here?

J: [Nodding] That’s exactly it.

C: [Shaking head] It doesn’t make sense.

J: But that’s what happened.

C: How do I know it really happened?

J: [Another image appears, J points at it] Look, there’s another one.

C: How do I know it’s really there?

J: We both see the same thing.

C: But we could both be imagining it.

J: We’re both imagining the same thing? [Walking up to the image and pointing] We’re both imagining this?

C: What’s to say we’re not?

J: [Pointing at I] Let’s ask him. [Both walking up to I, tapping the shoulder and pointing at the image] Do you see that?

I: Why should I tell you?

J: To help us settle a dispute.

I: Over what?

C: Over whether there is something there?

I: [Irritated] Look for yourselves.

J: But we need another person to verify it’s there.

I: So, why did you come and ask me?

J: Can’t you just say if you see it or not?

I: [Crossing his arms and turning away] Not when you have that attitude.

J: But…

C: Let’s ask him. [Pointing at B, they both walk over to him]

J: [To B] Do you see that [Pointing at the image]?

B: Yes… [The first image disappears] and no.

C: [To J] You see I’m right.

J: [To C] Wait. [To B] What do you mean “yes and no”?

B: Yes because I see it there because it is there, and no because I won’t see it there forever.

C: How do you know it won’t be there forever?

B: [Pointing to where the first one was] It will disappear like the first one?

J: Oh my, he’s right. The first one’s gone. [J walks over to the area where the first image was]

C: [Walking over to J] How do we know it was ever there in the first place?

J: You’re going to have to trust yourself. Did you see it before?

C: Yes, but you said it’s gone.

J: Do you still see it?

C: No.

J: So it’s gone.

C: So at one point it was here and then poof, it’s gone?

J: That’s exactly it.

C: It doesn’t make sense.

J: But that’s what happened.

C: Where did it go?

J: It disappeared.

C: No, I mean where did it go?

J: Nowhere.

C: It had to go somewhere.

J: Why?

C: Because it makes sense.

J: Why does it make sense?

C: Because it does. [He walks over to the second image leaving J staring at the blank curtain area of the first area. He gets in the way of H]

H: Do you mind?

C: Oh, sorry. [They both stare at the image] Did you know that the other one disappeared?

H: Yes.

C: Yep, there one moment, gone the next.

H: If you think so.

C: [Turning to H] Well, what do you think happened?

H: When the first one disappeared, another one appeared. So the first one must have turned into the other [Pointing at the newest image].

C: Where did the first one come from?

H: It came from the potential of it’s being.

C: The potential of it’s being?

H: Yes, that’s where the second one came from as well.

C: That doesn’t make sense.

H: Sense is our creation, it doesn’t have to be for that. [Pointing at the curtain]

C: Well it should. [Walks over by B who is sitting cross-legged, looking out toward the audience] So…what’s new?

B: Nothing is new; nothing is old.

C: [Head shaking] Nothing?

B: [Head nodding] Nothing.

C: Funny you say that, because someone thinks that’s where that thing that disappeared went.

B: Well, he’s wrong.

C: I thought so. [Starts to walk away]

B: And he’s right.

C: [Coming back] What? You have to learn to make up your mind.

B: Wrong because nothing is created and nothing is destroyed.

C: And right?

B: Right, because this is all nothing.

C: [Head shaking] Nothing?

B: [Head nodding] Nothing.

C: How do you figure?

B: Nothing and everything are basically two perspectives of the same thing?

C: What do you mean same thing?

B: What is nothing other than a void of everything? What is everything other than the antithesis of nothing?

C: That doesn’t make sense.

B: You’re not looking hard enough.

C: [Looking from B to the curtain and back again] But you’re not even looking at the things.

B: Looking within is just as effective as looking out. Our mind is a model of everything around it.

C: [Looking around] I don’t think it can all fit [measuring his head with his hands and examining the size].

B: That would be the case if you tried.

C: So if I don’t try it would fit?

B: But first you have to forget that you want to.

C: Want to do what?

B: Want.

C: So is that why you’re not facing the things, because you don’t want to?

B: Yes.

C: And that’s why you know so much about them?

B: No. I know nothing.

C: [Head shaking] Nothing?

B: [Head nodding] Nothing.

C: So what is your relationship to these things?

B: I am in harmony with them.

C: How do you know?

B: I don’t, and that’s why I am.

C: OK, if you’re in harmony with them, how did the one that disappeared become this other one that suddenly appeared?

B: They always were time is what is preventing you from seeing that.

C: What about the first one, how did that one come to be?

B: It has always and never been.

C: [Head shaking] That doesn’t make sense.

B: You’re not looking hard enough.

C: My whole mindset has changed for the worse.

B: Change is an illusion.