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The Fainting Game (and Other Stories)
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ISBN13: 9781735886428
Publisher: Game Over Books
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 75
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Award-winning writer, performer, and filmmaker Marshall Gripp Gillson presents their first collection of shorts with THE FAINTING GAME (AND OTHER STORIES). After spending a decade earning accolades as a spoken word artist, this collection offers the author's perspective in a new format: closet screenplays.
The scripts, written to be enjoyed on the page and in the mind rather than onscreen, explore the influence of racial capitalism on art, notions of self in the digital age, juvenile depression, and the surreal experience of an antinormative life. Characters in six short scripts invite readers to discover the magical in the worlds of their stories, and in turn the wonder in our own.
THE FAINTING GAME is at its core an invitation and a longing. Beneath the different genre elements is coming-of-age in the sense that the the characters in these stories are trying to arrive at truths. By asking what do you see here is more than just explicating the stories; it's a way of learning more about yourself. Without the help of a cast, crew, lighting, and music, what do these stories look like? Who is looking into the mirror, and who is reflected back? What we ask ourselves is important because the answers we choose shape who we are.--Keana Aguila Labra, The Script as Mirror: Review of The Fainting Game (And Other Stories) by Marshall Gripp Gillson
Fiction. Hybrid. Film. African & African American Studies. LGBTQ+ Studies.
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