Aurora Magazine 2018

Hear My Truth: A Play

H A Y L E Y C O O P E R

Characters MARSHALL, a criminal, in his mid-fifties, receiving capital punishment KYLE, a young guard giving MARSHALL the lethal injection Setting Present day, Texas. A small, dark room. MARSHALL sits alone, strapped down to a chair. A table sits in front of him. He seems oddly patient. KYLE, a fresh-faced, young man hurriedly enters from the left. MARSHALL (After a moment) Running late, boy? KYLE Yeah, I didn’t mean to keep you waiting. MARSHALL Waiting? To die? (KYLE is taken aback by MARSHALL’S matter-of-fact tone.) KYLE Well…I mean… MARSHALL I’m only kidding, boy. Just a dead man trying to make light of the situation. KYLE Marshall Jones? MARSHALL

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