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Russian Roulette

Creative Commons
Monologue - Drama by Mike Eserkaln
Cast
Male: 1


Description
(Roger has a bandage on his head and a bandage on his hand. He's holding an open beer
bottle.)

The key is to know someone you know knows more than you know. I don't know anyone... really, so I have to learn things on my own. I learned the hard way that superheroes aren't real. I guess that's the most effective and retentive way to learn something. The hard way. We learn the most from the things we screw up.

Rating
Some Strong Language

Reviews
Winner of the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Sheepshead Review Rising Phoenix Award 2005

Production History
Sheepshead Review - 2005

Excerpt
The key is to know someone you know knows more than you know. I don't know anyone...
really, so I have to learn things on my own.
I learned the hard way that superheroes aren't real. I guess that's the most effective and retentive
way to learn something. The hard way. We learn the most from the things we screw up.
Me, I learned that I'm not bullet proof. And, by extension I got a lesson in physiology that
makes me assume that no one is bulletproof. And if no one is bulletproof, a prerequisite for
being a superhero, then on can rightly assume that there are no superheroes.
Do you know why the Russians in Siberia play Russian roulette? Because it's always cold and
fucking boring in Siberia, and there ain't nothing else to do.
The rules to Russian roulette are simple. What else could they be but simple? One bullet in a
gun with a revolving chamber... a revolver, if you will. You spin, point, shoot, if you're not dead
you win. Pass the gun around. 'Course in my case I lost and still survived, so I guess it was a tie
really.

License

This script is licensed under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 license. See full license

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Author

mike@comedycityonline.com
Mike Eserkaln
P.O. Box 6101
De Pere WI, 54115

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