An Introduction
Setting -- In front of a computer in the High Rise South computer lab.
Characters -- Hannah Sassaman, a student at the University of Pennsylvania
Student #1
God
Lights up. Hannah sits at a computer in said lab. She is editing her homepage.
HANNAH
I should be writing something now
Other than what I am writing.
I should be doing a great many things.
I have a paper due and a different play than this
Resting in the back of my head.
STUDENT #1
Click. Click click. Click.
What? Why am I clicking? Click?
Click. Click click. Click!
STUDENT #1 turns and looks at HANNAH, who is typing next to him.
HANNAH
Click. Ha ha! That's funny.
All I have to do is write and
This Whartonite fool starts to make
My worded sounds. Ha ha!
STUDENT #1
sadly
Click. Click. Shit. Click
Click. Just you wait until I'm
The president of Merrill Lynch.
HANNAH
No.
HANNAH presses the return key and STUDENT #1 disappears from the realm of existence.
GOD
booming down from the heavens
Hannah, stop that. You know what I
Told you last time. This world needs
Whartonites and other types of snivelly
Businessmen.
HANNAH
No.
Again, HANNAH presses the return key with a flourish. GOD disappears from existence.
HANNAH
Nice.
HANNAH types quietly for a while.
Dammit. Without God, existence soon will
Stop, and I won't be able to
Confound these readers with this
Mindless and uninteresting drivel.
I guess I should promise them a more
Interesting homepage in the next
Universe, with information about
Herself, her friends, and the like.
HANNAH, the lab, the University, the city, the Earth, and the Universe all cease to exist.
FINIS
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