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Stay in Character: A Dramatic Monologue
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
I spent most of my life waiting for people to become what they already were.
A camera is set. The red light comes on.
An unnamed narrator begins a testimony against parents, friends, lovers, teachers, doctors, employers - everyone who failed the roles they were supposed to inhabit.
But the longer the monologue continues, the less stable the accusation becomes. Memory turns into evidence. Love into expectation. Care into contract. And the person behind the camera is forced toward a realization more devastating than abandonment.
Stay in Character is a tense first-person novella about family, intimacy, control, disappointment, and what happens when the stories that once protected us stop being true.
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