Lifted (Monologue/Short Story)

A personal acting project.
My own words, set to the song "If You Only Knew the Rain" by Balmorhea.
Sorry for the distracting earphones, but I had to keep them in to keep myself in sync with the changes in the music.
Let me know what you think please. Constructive criticism/etc.

"So last night, I dreamed I was walking somewhere. I wasn't exactly
sure where, but somehow I knew that it was the last place I would ever
go.
But I wasn't scared.
I was just a little chilly.
And so I walked on...

To my right, there was a wall, but Im pretty sure it was just glass,
like a window, liquidated and swimming with the images of everything I had
ever seen, flowing weaving throughout itself.
Whether from the light breeze or only from the desire to move, after
having remained so still for so long, I don't know.

And to my left, there was a perfectly flat field of what looked to be
covered in little, natural pyramids that grew tall and then sank, each
on it's own seemingly random schedule. Until certain ones began
growing so tall and collapsing. Imploding in the air from the bottom
up. The debri just disappeared. I assumed it just ceased to exist,
until I looked ahead of me.

The pieces of those shattered prysms had all come together to form the
shape of a hand. And that hand, it was so big, and it openned up flat
for me to walk onto. So I did.

And it lifted me up and up and up. There were no clouds. It took me to
the highest point in space that any man has ever gone, where there was
a microscope. I held it in my hand, and then I put it to my eye and
looked down to where I had just come from.
I could see every detail of every motion.
A kiss farewell from a mother to her son, leaving to go die for his
stolen rights.
The eyes of a teenage girl as they lick the words off of the pages of
her favorite book, reminding her that she's not alone.

And once my tears had finished collecting across the entirety of the
horizontal glass in my fingers, distorting the world on the other
side, the hand closed.

But I didn't wake up."

-Tyler Canada

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• monologue
• short
• story
• acting
• dream
• shapes
• microscope
• tyler
• canada
• if
• you
• only
• knew
• the
• rain
• balmorhea
• inception

[TheDaydreamer711]

@kinanka5588 Yeah, this is more a poetry reading than anything. Check out my "Tom's Monologue" for more of an acting.

[TheDaydreamer711]

@farahesmee Indeed!

[ophuadida]

Your monologue will b be a sample of my class presentation...lol

[kinanka5588]

Awesome Script!!

Nice pauses...

Could have done more with the acting like dwindling the eyes!!

[farahesmee]

Did you write this ?