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The Quicksand Theatre Company (Eidolonia) The Quicksand Theatre Company by Molly Ringle
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“Leo stepped out from behind the dressing curtain in Mathilde’s bus wearing a black-and-silver corset with a skirt of sparkly fringe that barely made it past his hips, with elbow-length black satin gloves, fishnet stockings, and garters. The sight knocked me dizzy.
“I should go grocery shopping in this,” he remarked.”
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“Come, thou day in night,” I whispered.
“Day in night?” Nalibak retorted. “Who would make such a wish? What a ruinous thing to do to the beauteous night.”
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“You don’t think it true? That this person loves you?”
“They don’t love me anymore, if they ever did,” I insisted. “Vai’s too smart for that.”
“You feel you aren’t worthy.”
“I know I’m not.”
“They say they love you. Why do you not believe?”
“People say things like that to console others,” I tried to explain.
“Ah. They lie. I lie! Vai is like me, you are saying.”
“No!” I said. “Vai is nothing like you.”
“But if Vai says they love you, and you believe Vai is smart and does not lie, why do you not believe? The convoluted tortures of your desires, such a twisted snail shell.”
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“When someone’s sole reason for being close to your face is to help with your makeup, it is not the done thing to hook your arm around their neck, latch your legs around their hips, and slide your tongue into their mouth as thanks for their assistance.
And I did not do so! But out of nowhere, I wanted to. Sweet Spirit, how I wanted to.
Welcome to Leo Has Bad Ideas, a one-act play by a dumbass.”
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“I loved him. It was a calm realization, dropping into our silence like a flower petal.”
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“Tell me something interesting.”
“In medieval times, narwhal tusks were passed off as unicorn horns and sold to wealthy Europeans,” I said.
He snorted. “I meant something about you.”
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“They had borrowed a hat from Mathilde’s costume stash, a fleece beret in pale lilac that looked uber-stylish on their chic head, though it would have looked like a literal macaron on mine.”
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