Melanie Crawley
Prompt: Your Mother’s Pearls - From Episode 02
Buried. They’re in the ground with her, never to see the light of day again. I can feel his arms around my shoulders, he’s behind me, feeling my sadness. It wasn’t in the will. How did they know it? She wanted me to have them - these beads of love.
Prompt: Someone Keeps Sending Me The Severed Heads of Birds - From Episode 06
How can I make dinner or actually, any meal if I’m just thinking about the nobble of what is meat really, meat covered in feathers - which I’ve put in the ground earlier that day? And today’s was tiny, a robin. Poor lad. I can’t do it, so I go green - green veg - as far away from feather covered rotting meat as possible. But then I think maybe embrace it? Eat songbirds? And then - stop! They’re not just song birds, there was a parrot and for Christmas such a large parcel - a flamingo I’m sure. A flamingo no longer able to flirt. Soup!
Prompt: A Pair of Tweezers - From Episode 04
Stop it, just fetch the bloody thing’ you said, I remember it, I remember - don’t you try and wriggle out of it, it was your fault. I was just climbing out of the bath when I heard you, screaming at her as if she can even understand human. Then you saw I’d heard and you hung your head, quite right too. I remember because I stepped on a tiny bit of glass from that champagne bottle you threw at me on Sunday. Funny that I wasn’t injured during the act of violence itself but only 5 days later on a dreary Thursday afternoon as you’re berating a 9 month old puppy through boredom.
Melanie’s anaudiobook narrator, actor, designer and producer. She is the co-founder of ‘Next Left Theatre’ and producer of the play ‘Tannie and Tannie’. For more information, visit her at melaniecrawley.com.