- 250 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Too Good to be True
About this book
From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation.
Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, and Jude, an excitable preteen—are on the run following the murder of Lisa's rapist. As the police close in, Maria is determined to give her kids a last supper that prepares them for everything they're going to need to survive in the world without her.
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Scene II: Schrödinger
Beat.
Lisa: When the baby comes, can we put the crib right here?
Beat.
Maria: Have you thought about baby names?
Lisa: If it’s a girl, I was thinking . . . Jennifer Lopez.
Beat.
Maria: If he’s a boy?
Lisa: Um . . .
Beat.
Maria: It must be hard to think about, because you were hurt.
Beat.
But you’re safe now, honey.
No one’s ever gonna touch you again, no ma’am.
Lisa: Mom, listen . . .
Maria: Yes, honey, yes: I’m listening.
Beat.
Beat.
Lisa: Uh . . . never mind.
Beat.
Jude enters with an empty cat carrier.
Lisa: What?
Jude: I-I . . . I forgot the cat—
Beat.
At the motel.
Beat.
I forgot the cat.
Beat.
Lisa: You lost the cat.
Beat.
Jude: I let her out for some air and this girl started talking to me.
Beat.
Maria: What girl?
Beat.
Jude: (to Maria) Then you called . . .
I forgot to bring her back.
Maria: Who did you talk to?
Lisa: You lost our cat?
Jude: Oh no oh no oh no . . .
Beat.
Maria: Baby, focus.
Beat.
Jude: Can we go back?
Maria: No, that motel is—
Did they seem like they knew you?
Jude: You know, she did.
Beat.
Maria: Did you tell her your name?
Jude: I said Jude.
I didn’t say my last name.
Beat.
Lisa: Idiot.
Beat.
Maria: What else did you say?
Beat.
Jude: Just that our old life wasn’t fair; so we’re looking for a new one.
Like you said.
Beat.
Maria: Like I said . . .
I said “don’t talk to anyone.”
Beat.
Remember.
Don’t talk to anyone.
Don’t talk in front of anyone.
And if someone talks to you first—
Jude: Tell them I don’t speak English.
Beat.
Lisa: You weeping colon.
Jude: Wart sucker.
Lisa: Facial cyst.
Jude: Goat molester.
Lisa: Sexual deviant.
Jude: Depraved swine.
Lisa: Dingle...
Table of contents
- Also By Cliff Cardinal
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Production History
- Characters
- Prologue
- Scene I: New Digs
- Scene II: Schrödinger
- Scene III: Roughhousing
- Scene IV: Lisa’s Story
- Scene V: Aerialism
- Scene V.d
- Scene VI: The Frilly Valise
- Scene VII: A Dark Secret
- Epilogue
- About the Author