Enconters

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floorboards. (pause) Actually, it was yellow wallpaper, yeah, with little white
flowers on it. There was no window, just a light which hardly ever worked.
But anyway, in that room there was a lot of spider webs and if there are
spider webs then that means, yep spiders. My ma would be working most
of the time in the day. So, being all alone in the house like that I had a lot
of time on my hands. So, every now and then I would go in there and find
some spiders. Then I would grab a jar and put those spiders in that jar. I'd
take the jar of spiders into the kitchen and put them in the microwave. Turn
it on for like, I dunno. Maybe 30 seconds ... (drifting away as if in a dream.
Then miming using the microwave) brrrrrrrrrrrrrr tick tick tick DING!
(becomes disgusted with self)
And so it began. And I enjoyed it! (becoming emotional) I fucking enjoyed
it! I was killing things, taking their lives away. It was like a drug. I was
enjoying killing. I didn't even know why, but that didn't stop me! It became
an addiction. I would do it (starts hitting the chair with an alarming amount
of force) again and again and again! And then I would go onto bigger
things like worms and cats and- (stops suddenly and becomes sullen and
sad like he is all out of energy)
(long pause as sean steadies his emotions, taking deep breaths)
And ... And, that's all I've got to share for now.
(Lights Down)
Sc3:
T: (on phone) Yeah. Its beginning to look like it's him. Well yeah, I mean
he's just after giving me a huge long monologue about how he used to kill
animals. Yeah. Look I'm not sure yet. Look, youre my brother Give me a bit
longer. I, I want to find out why. There is always a reason. Your