Playwright Portrait, Erin Courtney, Excerpt from Black Cat Lost

The Playwright Erin Courtney, 2006
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BLACK CAT LOST

SON

Why are they wearing hats?

MOTHER‚

So the evil spirit can't sneak up on them.

SON

Oh and what's that?

MOTHER

That's a dead body. They are lifting it up into that cave.

SON

And what are those?

MOTHER

Those are bones.