#1 “Renovation Comedy” Act II Scene I by Suzi Poland

Tiny Minds make chaos on stage, Big Mamma enters, roars, Tiny Minds get confused. Big Mind complains, Big Mamma explains, Big Mind leaves. Bigger Mind storms in + bullies Big Mamma who stands still, heart pumping. Bigger Mind leaves, gathers Tiny Minds tells them to listen to Big Mamma. Tiny Minds work quickly. Scene ends with Tiny Minds sitting on eskies stage clean.

#2 “Smallville Faux pas” Act II Scene II by Suzi Poland

Popping in for morning coffee, Big Mamma chats with other mammas and mini mammas. In walks Tiny Mind, pushing a pram. Big Mamma is pleased Tiny Mind grew a mini mind, but gets up and orders coffee to avoid embarrassment. None of the other mammas know it, but Big Mamma has met Tiny Mind on a previous occasion…

#3 “Dozing” by Chris Cook

Space travelers find a man dozing in a chair. They wake him
and he introduces himself as God. “We are humans. Thank you for creating us!” says the captain. “I must have slept a long time,” God says, “because I have no knowledge of creatures like you.” “We are from Earth?” says the navigator. “Nope, that does not ring a bell. How did you get here?” God asks. “It is the LONGEST story?” says the communications officer.

#4 “Commission” by Suzi Poland

Cleverteck came to see Extraordinaire as he needed something special the next day, something he knew he could not do. What he did not know was that, despite years of training and multi-talents, Extraordinaire also found it hard to do something special, especially in a hurry.

Extraordinaire did her best, but when Cleverteck left he seemed a little disappointed and so Extraordinaire felt a little less extraordinary.

#5 “Help” by Suzi Poland

Trickyspeak was having a party and asked a few close friends to help cater. On the day, Softgrey turned up empty-handed, but Trickyspeak said nothing.

It was a quiet affair and later that night Trickyspeak and Softgrey found themselves together tinkering in the kitchen. To her surprise, Trickyspeak saw Softgrey was happy cleaning up. She made a mental note, that next time, she wouldn’t ask Softgrey to help cater.

#6 “Autumn” by Suzi Poland

It was late autumn and the Serious Nutcases arrived with hordes of stuff gathered from seasons past. Preferring a life inside, they felt the need to defend their shells with all sorts of offensive behaviours and strange growths.

The Squirrels knew that once closed they’d be hard to open, but hey, they had all winter.

#7 “Competition” by Suzi Poland

Team politics caused the Negative team to erase all reference to the Challengers. Team Captain could do little but remove the team from the competition leaving the Negs to wallow in mud. A quick motivational message and the Challengers were back, focused, running their own race.

Before long new players arrived, warmed up, ready to play ball. A new league was formed and everyone was on the field enjoying themselves.

#8 “Parcel” by Suzi Poland

A parcel arrived at Mrs Ghan’s house. It was mid-winter + the postman was long gone. She was so busy at the time, she put the parcel on the shelf + got on with her chores…

Time passed + old Mrs Ghan, now stooped with the weight of time, her children long gone, her house finally clean, remembered the parcel + sat down to open it. She undid the string bow + there, inside the brown paper packaging … was life itself.

#9 “Tolls” by Suzi Poland

Mr Inven Tor built a bridge. Everyone thought he was very clever. It made their lives more interesting so they were happy to pay him handsomely every time they used his bridge.

Soon he found himself working in the toll booth, then other bridges were built. Life was now less interesting and he wondered why he wasn’t paid so well or so highly regarded, but since he’d collected tolls so long, that’s all he knew how to do.

# 10 “U-Turn” by Chris Cook

A man turns right on a green right arrow and a man makes a u-turn on a
green left arrow at night. They exit their cars to figure out how to
back out of the roadway. “Hey lets stage a crash to protest this
craziness,” says one guy. The other guy says, “OK I’ve got the time and
money too.” They don’t want to sue the government and could not anyway.
They want to be a spanner in the works, unable to sue each other
because they are both in the right. Yet forensic collision science
reveals their devious pissed off scheme.