Express Yourself

Closeness; or Herb Goes for a Swim

A fiction lesson in a one-act play

Benjamin Obler
Human Parts
Published in
4 min readFeb 23, 2021

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Person in water mid-motion from rear view of their neck.
Photo: VV Nincic/Flickr

SETTING: A dark, bare stage. Beaten wood floors, well-trod. Two chairs are set out at oblique angles to one another.

YOUR CHARACTER: Can we talk?

YOU: Sure. What’s up?

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Benjamin Obler
Human Parts

Instructor at @GothamWriters, NYC. Ed.-in-Chief of AspiringWriterSyndrome.com, where fiction is the focus and inspiration is the goal. #Javascotia @PenguinBooks