Excerpt of Evolution Fast Track
(from near the middle)
ONE
See. "Everyone has mother issues!" Like it's a given. I heard it again at the coffeehouse.
TWO
Coffeehouse? We have coffeehouses?
ONE
It must have been later—in the future. Time confuses me.
TWO
Not that I knew my father.
THREE
Father. Papa. Daddy. Pop!
TWO
Not that any of us know our fathers. After all, it is kind of a free for all.
ONE
There are places where people know their fathers.
TWO
(Trying to feed the fire, burns herself again.) Ouch! Damn!
THREE
Dam. Mater. Mummy. Ma.
ONE
Let me see. (TWO shows ONE her burn.) It's not that bad.
TWO
It is that bad.
ONE
Put some, I don't know, mud on it. Oh heck, put some aloe vera on it.
TWO
Aloe vera?
ONE
In the closet.
TWO
Closets? We have closets? (ONE motions to the closet. TWO walks to it.) Wo-o-ow. Closets. (Opening it and riffling through the mess.) Closets. Cool.
THREE
Closet. Cloister. Cupboard. Den.
TWO
Are they always this messy?
ONE
E-Yep.
TWO
(Pulling out a flat, life-sized paper doll of an older cavewoman.) What is this?!
ONE
My mother.
(…continued…)