by ryanc | May 8, 2017 | It Came from the Suitcase, Plays
Just before i finished 8th grade, i auditioned for the specialty Performing Arts program at the high school i was hoping to attend. i was accepted to the program as a drama major. We had a performance night in the first term, and my teacher tasked me with writing a...
by ryanc | May 7, 2017 | It Came from the Suitcase, Plays
The Revelation of Randolph Diggs AT RISE : The stage is blank, save for a notebook and pencil lying on the floor. Rand enters, stage right, with a pen in his ear. Rand- I feel a poem coming on. ( He sits cross-legged on the stage and picks up the notebook ) I think a...
by ryanc | Apr 29, 2017 | It Came from the Suitcase, Short stories
When i dug the spiral-bound Durham Literary Guild from the bottom of the suitcase, it blew the dust off a long-abandoned corner of my memory. i had obviously submitted something to the publication (which ruined me, for many years, on the actual dictionary definition...
by ryanc | Apr 20, 2017 | Awesomazing, It Came from the Suitcase, Video Games
This afternoon, my mother dropped off a suitcase full of letters, stories, poems, scripts, comics, and game designs from my tender junior high through early high school years. It’s a real time capsule full of some painfully embarrassing gems. Here’s one....
by ryanc | Apr 20, 2017 | It Came from the Suitcase
I’m sleepy now I’ll go to bed and watch the dancers in my head who dance the kickline in a row Oh, how I love them …hold it – Joe! What are you doing there in my mind lifting your skirt to expose your behind? Get away from those dancers and...