Scene Two
2020. Bedroom, O Block, Chicago. Crystal sees half-eaten pizza on the ground and pizza sauce smeared on the walls like kids’ writing.
Crystal:
What happened??
Then she looks and sees Spencer on the floor.
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Spencer (pointing behind her):
It was ...
Crystal turns around. In the dark corner is a shadowy character. It is a shape-shifter.
Shape-shifter (sings a lullaby):
La, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Your answer, it is downstairs,
Your life is becoming bare,
Go down there if you dare,
This will be your last scare.
Crystal (cries):
Why ...?
She hears her phone ring. It’s the pizza guy. He was knocked out by the ladder. Now he is conscious again.
Pizza Delivery guy:
Run!
Crystal:
I don’t think I can.
Pizza delivery guy:
Why not?
Crystal:
I can’t leave my friend.
Pizza delivery guy:
It doesn’t matter. Just get out of there.
Meanwhile, we hear the lullaby:
I’ve left you nothing to spare,
No, no, not even a hair,
Of your friend
La, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Crystal runs down the stairs. She meets up with the delivery guy. They jump in the car and drive off. The shape-shifter follows them...
Tales to Scale focuses on creative engagements between Fighting Words and Deis primary and secondary schools across Ireland. Creative workshops run by Fighting Words offer positive spaces in its centres, in local libraries and classrooms for young people to tell their stories.
Across more than 500 activities in 2024, Fighting Words met 9,352 young people from more than 200 Deis schools through workshops, summer camps, an after-school program called Word Warriors and its Book Project. More than 200 stories have been published at fightingwords.ie
