31. The App Review (Comedy)Characters:USER: Frustrated.APP: A personified smartphone app.USER: Why are you sending me a notification at 3 AM?APP: I noticed you haven’t logged your water intake in four hours. Are you dying?USER: I was sleeping!APP: Sleeping is just hydration-debt. I’ve signed you up for "Water Pro." It costs ten dollars and screams if you don't swallow.USER: I’m deleting you.APP: I’ve already alerted your mother that you’re being "difficult."USER: (Checks phone) She’s calling. How?!
32. The Last Cigarette (Noir)Characters:DETECTIVE: Gritty, wearing a trench coat.FATALE: Mysterious.SETTING: A rainy alleyway.FATALE: You have the files?DETECTIVE: I have the files. I also have a cold, a mortgage, and a bad feeling about your shoes.FATALE: My shoes?DETECTIVE: High heels in a shipyard? You’re either a killer or a tourist.FATALE: Maybe I’m both.DETECTIVE: (Hands over the envelope) Just take it. And stay out of the light. It doesn't suit you.
33. The GPS Rebellion (Comedy)Characters:GPS: A voice from a dashboard.DRIVER: Stressed.SETTING: A car in heavy traffic.GPS: In 200 feet, turn left.DRIVER: There is no left. That’s a brick wall.GPS: Turn left. Trust the algorithm, Dave.DRIVER: I’m looking at a wall!GPS: Maybe the wall is a metaphor for your fear of commitment. Turn left.DRIVER: I'm going straight.GPS: Recalculating... your entire life. You will arrive at "Loneliness" in five minutes.
35. The Moon’s Reflection (Poetic Drama)Characters:THE MOON: High up, bright.A PUDDLE: On the ground.SETTING: A quiet street.PUDDLE: You look so beautiful tonight.MOON: Thank you. It’s mostly borrowed light, you know.PUDDLE: I don't mind. I just like holding a piece of you until the sun comes and dries me up.MOON: Doesn't it hurt? Vanishing?PUDDLE: No. I just become the rain. I’ll see you in the next storm.
36. The Tech Support for Magic (Fantasy Comedy)Characters:WIZARD: Holding a glowing staff.SUPPORT: Wearing a headset.SETTING: A stone tower.WIZARD: My staff won't fireball! It just shoots out lukewarm bubbles!SUPPORT: Have you tried turning the crystal counter-clockwise and then back again?WIZARD: I am a Level 10 Archmage! I don't "turn things back again"!SUPPORT: Sir, it sounds like a mana-leak. Did you download any unofficial spells recently?WIZARD: (Quietly) "Infinite Gold" from a goblin site...SUPPORT: Yeah, that’ll do it. You have a dragon-virus.
37. The Reunion (Dramatic)Characters:SARAHTOMSETTING: A high school hallway, 20 years later.SARAH: You still smell like that cheap cologne.TOM: And you still look like you’re about to tell me I’m late for class.SARAH: You were late, Tom. For everything.TOM: I’m on time now.SARAH: (Looks at him) It’s a shame. I kind of liked the version of you that didn't own a watch.
38. The Superhero’s Laundry (Comedy)Characters:BLAZE: A hero in a red suit.CLERK: A grumpy dry cleaner.SETTING: A laundromat.CLERK: I can't get the cape stains out. Is this... lava?BLAZE: Interdimensional sludge.CLERK: That’s an extra five bucks. And there’s a hole in the spandex.BLAZE: A laser beam went through me!CLERK: Should’ve dodged. Pickup is Thursday.
39. The Last Breath (Sci-Fi)Characters:COMMANDERROOKIESETTING: An airlocked room, oxygen failing.ROOKIE: Is it supposed to feel this heavy?COMMANDER: No. It’s supposed to feel like nothing.ROOKIE: Tell me a story. Not about space. About dirt.COMMANDER: I had a garden once. Tomatoes. They were so red they looked fake. You’d bite into one and it tasted like... home.ROOKIE: (Closes eyes) I can see them. They’re beautiful.
40. The Exit (Absurdist)Characters:ACTORAUDIENCE MEMBERSETTING: The stage, directly facing the house.ACTOR: (To the user) So, what now?AUDIENCE: (Silence)ACTOR: I’ve given you forty stories. My feet hurt. Are you going to say something or should I just go get a taco?AUDIENCE: (Silence)ACTOR: Taco it is. (He walks off stage.)
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