SCENE V: The Suggestions of Normalcy

pp. 70-89  

DESCRIPTION/SET UP

Nelson is torn between queerness and normalcy. Entangled in the gray between these binaries. Sodomitical mother. Harry’s physical transition.

Existing in opposing worlds and being subjected to the perceptions of others highlights the spectrum of violence we exist in.

THE EOE-FBS

Breasts that are filled with seed, transternal, the schizophrenia of the sodomitical mother. Light that simulates subjective perspective

The sodomitical mother spreads her seed

DIALOGUE w. STAGE DIRECTIONS

NELSON: DODGE:

Me, four months pregnant, you, six months on T. The air was hot and lavender with a night storm coming in. There was always a storm coming in.

On the inside, we’re two human animals undergoing transformations beside each other, bearing each other loose witness. We were aging. Falling forever – going to pieces.

Our bodies grew stranger, to ourselves, to each other.

Falling forever - all touch starting to sicken. Without this sheet, I would be invisible.


SHANTEL GARCIA