This two-act play started out as a one-act play set in a funeral home. The daughters fight over their mother’s casket, venting over old hurts and dark moments. Then Georgia arrives, a sister they haven’t seen in years, and that’s when the fun starts.

This one-act play received a staged reading at the Aronoff Black Box Theatre in Cincinnati, and then a few years later, I added an act two.

In act two, it is ten years earlier, and the mother and daughters are mourning the passing of the husband and father. And we discover how Georgia’s feelings got so badly hurt, she felt compelled to leave her family.

This two-act play started out as a one-act play set in a funeral home. The daughters fight over their mother’s casket, venting over old hurts and dark moments. Then Georgia arrives, a sister they haven’t seen in years, and that’s when the fun starts.

This one-act play received a staged reading at the Aronoff Black Box Theatre in Cincinnati, and then a few years later, I added an act two.

In act two, it is ten years earlier, and the mother and daughters are mourning the passing of the husband and father. And we discover how Georgia’s feelings got so badly hurt, she felt compelled to leave her family.

You can find this scene on Amazon.

It’s coming, I promise!

I am editing away on Trailer Park Wives III–the triple-wide edition, and while I can’t wait to release it, I want to make sure it’s perfect. At the same time, I don’t want to keep scenes in the story that don’t move it along. I’ve done a few pass-throughs of TPW III and each time I come to this particular scene, while I love editing it and making it better, it also occurs to me that I don’t really need the scene for the story.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Margaret Mitchell once said that we must kill our little darlings, and I know exactly what she means. It’s hard to let go of a scene that you’ve worked so hard on, but every time I return to this scene to work on it and edit it, I realize that, while I love it, it doesn’t move the story along.

So I cut it.

But then I thought, why not share it with my readers?

By way of background. Joe Robinson has filed for divorce from Lettie, and she has been ordered to appear at Angela Van Johnson’s law office to give her deposition.

A deposition is sworn testimony taken by a court reporter, as the opposing lawyer finds out facts concerning a case.

In a divorce, typically, the lawyer wants to find out what assets the other party has; the lawyer also wants to find out if the party is hiding assets from the other spouse. 

The scene begins with Lettie asking Deena to call Childrens Protective Services for her, after Lettie has witnessed a disturbing scene at the Bergens’ trailer. It won’t spoil your enjoyment of the story to read this scene–I don’t reveal what Lettie witnessed–and then the deposition scene follows.

And Lette doesn’t have a lawyer.

I

I have download codes for this story on iBooks and am happy to share them. Please just let me know!