Title: Courage
by Lauren from Norfolk | in writing, fiction
Girls' toilets, inner-city high school. Two girls, share a cigarette and reapply their makeup.
ANNA: It's quiet this morning.
MARIE: Yeah, I know.
ANNA: Have you seen it yet?
MARIE: (laughs) Everybody's seen it. Just another day, really. (Pauses) It is quiet this morning.
ANNA: Yeah. Did you see the latest celeb shocker on MTV?
MARIE: Lindsay in rehab again? I'm not surprised.
ANNA: No, not Lindsay in rehab. Heath overdosed.
MARIE: Heath?
ANNA: Heath Ledger.
MARIE: (takes a long drag on the cigarette, considers) Alive?
ANNA: No.
MARIE: Do you think it had something to do with the '
ANNA: Sssshh. We're not supposed to talk about it.
MARIE: Since when did the rules apply to you?
ANNA: Since they came. Since September.
MARIE: That was America. Shouldn't we be more concerned about July?
ANNA: You've got to be politically correct.
MARIE: So we shouldn't even talk about it?
ANNA: No, it's easier not to.
MARIE: But it happened again last night.
ANNA: You still can't talk about it. Brown said so.
MARIE: (long pause) It's quiet this morning.
ANNA: Yeah, I know.
Two incredibly relevant issues to young people today are celebrity influence and terrorism. I've tried to incorporate both of these concepts into my script, in a situation that is realistic. If I were able to expand on this, I would present a number of scenes in which current issues could be discussed by a myriad of social groups.
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