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Okay, okay, Albert—uh, RMeisitsetran.ce. . Mister—I was just going to see what kind of selection you had left.
A Short One-Act Play
DREYFUSS
I’m not kidding, DeBtyecFt.iEv.e.Balzac Jr.
BOB
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DREYFUSS
What?Det. Ray Fortuna. . . . . . . . . Dylan Van
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Cecile Dreyfuss . . . . . . . . . . Annie Scavo BOB
We can’t arrest you for something you didn’t do.
BOB
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aNewReYsoirsktaCnictey.policestation.
Synopsis: Two NYC police detectBiOvBes—Ray Fortuna and Bob VogelIludso—na’rteb“eilnitevrerotghaatti,ngs”ira.nYoolud’eremAalnb,erAtlbOe.rtDrDeryefyufsus,s,who claimCsontcoerbneedthCeitliezaedne—rthoaft’asraldli.caYlouprowtiefsettgorlodupu.sAasllanactof resisatbaonucte,yoDur.eyfussinsiststhatthedetectivesarrestandjail him. They resist and, when his wife, Cecile, appears, urge Albert to go home with her. ODnRlEyYFoUnSeS of these two efforts of resisNtoa,ncseheisdibdonu’ntd.tosucceed.
DREYFUSS
RAY
Author contact info: F.E. Balzac Jr., 128 Shepard Ave., Saranac
Sure—sure she did. Didn’t she, Detective Vogellus?
Lake, NY; feb6@caa.columbia.edu, 518-588-7275 (mobile).
BOB
Copyright © 2020 by F.E. Balzac Jr.
Yep. Like how you’ve always lived an extraordinarily
decent, upstanding life but wanted to do something
more for your fellow man—something even heroic. And
how, when you realized you had the rarest of all blood