Script for a Facebook Photo Shoot
A play on our social world
by Dion D’Souza
FADE IN.
EXT. A BAR AND RESTAURANT
BOY 1 places his arm around GIRL 1 who is grinning and looking up at him happily; he looks down at her adoringly.
BOY 2 squats in front of them, camera pointed up at them; BOY 3 and GIRL 2 squeeze into the frame; BOY 3 puts one arm each around BOY 1 and GIRL 1; GIRL 2 snuggles up against GIRL 1. BOY 4 jumps up from behind the group, mouth open, arms enclosing all of them, pretending to let out a demonic laugh.
GIRL 1 and GIRL 2, crinkling their noses, stand cheek to cheek. BOY 2, hustling the others in his eagerness to be part of the action, half-crawls into the frame, his head somewhere near GIRL 1’s elbow, fingers featuring prominently, peace signs held horizontally facing each other. BOY 3 attaches two pairs of surreptitious horns to the back of BOY 2’s head. GIRL 1 and GIRL 2 twist their mouths in feigned contempt, hands floating at their sides, legs kicked up a little in a coquettish attitude.
Laughing and still making funny faces BOYS 1–4 and GIRLS 1–2 disperse.
FADE OUT.
Dion D’Souza read English literature at Mumbai University. He works as an editor. He also obsessively edits his own writing, which has appeared in journals such as Kavya Bharati, Nether, Helter Skelter, The Bangalore Review, Vayavya, Out of Print and the Big Bridge Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He was shortlisted for the Toto Funds the Arts Creative Writing Prize in 2013 and the Raedleaf India Poetry Award in 2014.