Not Torn Fakes. Torn Fakes.

- a brief screenplay

FADE IN:

INT. KITCHEN IN CONTEMPORARY MIDWEST HOME. 2-YEAR-OLD GIRL SITS AT BREAKFAST NOOK EATING A BOWL OF CORN FLAKES WITH GUSTO.

ENTERS: DAD.

DAD:

Hi, there.

GIRL:
I eating torn fakes!

DAD:
Torn Fakes?

GIRL:
No! torn fakes.

DAD:
That’s what I said: torn fakes.

GIRL:
NO!

(Slowly with exaggerated enunciation)

torn . . . fffffakes.

DAD:
Corn flakes?

GIRL:

(smiling broadly with satisfaction)
Yep.

FADE OUT:

THE END