Horror/sf play by a four-year-old

Rachel Bublitz's four year old Audrey wrote her first play:

Characters: Scare People, F, very tall, wears a mask, growls, 18 years old. She goes to scare people school. She is an octopus monster with wings.
Audrey, F, 11 years old. Wears monkey pajamas.
Synopsis: Audrey tries to get Scare People out of her house.

AUDREY SCARE PEOPLE PLAY (Thanks, Ashley!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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euansmith

If only they’d had writers of this calibre working on Promethius :(
- peregrinus
  
  as in .44 “Did he fire six shots or only five?”
  vs
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Frank Diekman

“She is an octopus monster with wings” – Has the kid been reading Lovecraft?
- euansmith
  
  I like Edgar Rice Burroughs descriptions, “It was a panther, with six legs, tentacles and a purple spotted pelt… did I mention the tentacles? But it was definitely a panther, no mistaking it… yep, Carson Napier, that’s definitely a panther, that is.”
  - http://twitter.com/AbelUndercity Abel Undercity
    
    Oh, a displacer beast from Dungeons and Dragons, sound like.
    - euansmith
      
      I think that Gary Gygax might have read Carson Napier of Venus :)
    - http://twitter.com/NelC NelC
      
      Wasn’t that based on the beastie from Van Vogt’s Voyage of the Space Beagle, or am I thinking of something else?
- http://profile.yahoo.com/VE7OYYD3UHSKWN2YA67OCA6I7I Edwin
  
  My Little Cthulhu.
Mark Dow

“…tries to get Scare People out of her house.”
Been there.
oasisob1

4 years old. Writing. This play. Her power exceeds that of most of us here on BB. Just look at that, willya?
euansmith

Monkey pajamas.
- Edwin Austin
  
  Monkey PJ’s! Brrr that gives me the heebie jeebies.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1208962828 Eric Legg

Its a nice start, but there’s gonna need a lot reworking for this to get picked up for a movie adaptation. For one thing there’s too much character development and not enough explosions. Also I’m not sure how major studios are gonna feel about octopi tentacles, people might unintentionally confuse it with something wrong and Japanese. Might I suggest spider legs instead, they have the same number and people dont typically confuse them with cephalapod-o-philia. Because fucking spiders.
Boundegar

I was rooting for Scare People.
http://www.twitter.com/eselqueso eselqueso

GET OUT OF MY HOUSE OR I’LL STAB YOU IN THE FACE!
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Is that Amazon’s new algorithmically-generated tee shirt?
Professor59

I was totally hooked. Can’t wait for the movie. I hope Tim Burton directs!
http://twitter.com/gratefulvideo gratefulvideo

Love the ending

“Then I won’t go into the refrigerator. I’m going to sleep.”
AUDREY exits to go to sleep. End of play

No resolution and leaves open a chance for a sequel.
- FakeNina
  
  **SPOILER ALERT**
- http://twitter.com/NelC NelC
  
  Ooh, twist ending! I totally didn’t expect that!
http://www.alwayssababa.com/ lishevita

Parenting: someone’s doin’ it right! :)
Love it!!!”AUDREY stabs SCARE PEOPLE with the pen again. SCARE PEOPLE puts on another band aid.”
David Kopelman

Perhaps margarine would have worked. Or Nutella.
http://avarana.blogspot.com MarlboroTestMonkey7

Unsurprisely similar to existing professional Hollywood scripts. I suspect child labor.