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October 20th, 2020
Starring: A & B
The beach. It is very crowded. A sits in a beach chair, surveying the shore. B is lying down, reading a novel:
A
Hey
B
Hm?
A
Question.
B
Let me finish this page.
After a little, B finishes the page.
B
What’s up?
A
Do you think I’m selfish?
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Do you?
B
I’m not answering.
A
Why?
B
I don’t come to the beach to get existential.
A
Well I don’t come to read.
B
You want to contemplate existence? Go swim. Build a sandcastle and then destroy it.
A
There’s too many people.
B
It was your idea.
A
And had I known that everyone else was going to have the same idea, I wouldn't've.
It was selfish to assume noone would.
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Can you pass the PB&Js?
B
Let me finish the page.
B finishes, then passes a canvas bag to A.
A
Do you want crunchy or smooth?
B
It doesn’t matter.
A
But if you had to pick.
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B
Crunchy.
A
Ok.
I’ll have smooth then.
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B
You just proved it.
A
What?
B
You’re not selfish.
A
Really?
B
Why else would you ask?
A
Oh.
Yeah, I guess.
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I’ll eat later.
I think I’m going to swim.
B
Good.
A
Don’t miss me.
B
Ok.
A gets up and walks towards the ocean. B keeps on reading.