Excerpt
CAST of CHARACTERS
Narrator                                    Very matter-of-fact - Rod Serling-esq
Loggerhead Station Locals
Station Master/conductor          Keeps everyone in control
Captain                                      Many generations of his/her family have
lived in the area  
Marby                                         A local fisherman/woman
Passengers for the train
Professor                                    Overly educated person  
Sam(antha)                                 Middle School age range
Laura/Lawrence                          Middle School age range
From Scene 1
In the train station two kids think they see… something…

SAM
What?!

LAURA/LAWERENCE
Didn’t you see?


SAM
Didn’t I see what?

LAURA/LAWERENCE
That thing… that… I don’t know what it was.  Some kind of thing going toward’s track 4!


SAM
Nope.

LAURA/LAWERENCE
How could you miss it?  It looked huge.

SAM
Didn’t see it.  What did it look like?

LAURA/LAWERENCE
Big… sort of a rounded back.  Really big.   I don’t know it was just big.

SAM
Which way did it go?

LAURA/LAWERENCE
It was headed towards track 4.

SAM
Well let’s go look for it.

CONDUCTOR
Let’s go look for what kids?

SAM
The monster that LAURA/LAWERENCE saw.

CONDUCTOR
(astounded)
YOU SAW THE MONSTER!

SAM
You mean there is one?!

CONDUCTOR
Well. Um.  I’ve heard people talk about the Monster, but I have never seen it, and I have worked here 10 years. So
I don’t think it really exists.

LAURA/LAWERENCE
But I saw it.

SAM
Sure you did LAURA/LAWERENCE.

LAURA/LAWERENCE
I did.  Really.

CONDUCTOR
Were you near track four?
(LAURA/LAWERENCE nods)
They are boarding on Track four.  It was probably a passenger carrying a back pack or some big piece of luggage.  

LAURA/LAWERENCE
Maybe.

SAM
Darn.

MARBY
(enters carrying fishing gear)
Or maybe they saw the monster.

CONDUCTOR
Yes, maybe, you saw the monster.  They have been telling tales about it for over 150 years ever since this was a
stage stop.  Just because I haven’t seen it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.   Good morning Marby catch anything.

MARBY
Managed to snag a few blues and grabbed some jelly fish.

SAM
What in the world do you do with Jelly fish.

MARBY
Everything has a purpose in this life.  I will find a use for the Jellyfish.  So you saw the monster did ya?

SAM
You mean LAURA/LAWERENCE might have seen a real monster?!

LAURA/LAWERENCE
That can’t be.  You said they have been talking about it for over 150 years.  How could something live that long?

MARBY
A monster living 150 years is as likely as a monster living at all. Don’t you think?

SAM
What do you know about the monster?

MARBY
Well, there have been stories about it since this place was a stage stop back in 1865…

CAPTAIN
They call it, The Giant Loggerhead Monster.


MARBY
That’s right, they do, don’t they!

SAM
Who are you?


NARRATOR
(Walks on stage and everyone else freezes.  As the narrator speaks he points out the people he is speaking about)

This is Marby, He/she fishes off the coast.  Seems to catch something he/she finds useful on every trip.  Although I
can’t imagine what the jelly fish is good for.  

This is the Captain who runs the ferry boat line to the island about five miles off the shore.  His family has been
running the ferry line for almost one hundred years.

(Narrator exits and everyone un-stiffens their bodies again – this will happen every time the Narrator comes on
stage.)

CAPTAIN
I am the captain that runs the ferry boat line that takes people to and from the island about five miles off shore.

SAM and LAURA/LAWERENCE
Oooohhh.
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