Short Story as a Play

Characters: An old man with a cane and a handlebar mustache and a middle-aged woman with pinkish skin

Time: 9:45 am

Setting: A large church with many pews, a large stage, and a small altar.

The old man sits on a pew four rows back, aisle seat, left of center. The pink woman stands next to him.

Pink woman: “Well bless your heart, you must be deaf. I wish I knew braile.”

Old man: “I’m not deaf. I can hear you.”

Pink woman: “Well then why on God’s Green Earth are you not moving?”

Old man: “Because this is my seat.”

Pink woman: “No, it’s my seat! It’s been my seat for years! I’ve never even seen you here before and here you are saying this is your seat!”