Stephen Metcalfe

playwright, screenwriter, and novelist

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  • Mr.and Mrs. Claus – The Annual Holiday Post

    THERE IS A LIGHTED SIGN ABOVE THE STAGE THAT SHOWS THE CHANGING DATE. IT IS DECEMBER 25TH. KRIS KRINGLE ENTERS. HE WEARS FADED, DARK PANTS, A LONG-SLEEVE UNDERSHIRT, SLIPPERS, SPECTACLES AND SUSPENDERS. HE LOOKS TIRED. HE LOOKS UP AT THE DATE ON THE SIGN. KRIS Well, thank God, that’s over. I’m exhausted. Each year it

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  • Stuck on the Couch

    “What are you doing,” asks the lovely wife. It’s 7 in the morning and it’s obvious what I’m doing. I’m sitting on the living room couch, a cup of coffee on the table beside me. My tablet is open and on my lap. “You’re not reading the newspaper, are you?” “Uh, no, not really” I

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  • Birdsong Moment

    I keep trying to write positive things these days. Needless to say, I’m finding it difficult. I’m not sure if it’s advancing age, personal circumstances or the tumultuous times we live in but too often I feel as if I’ve lost my underlying optimism and sense of humor; both of which have always been cornerstones

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  • Dream, Dream, Dream

    I’ve always had rather bizarre dreams. Maybe it comes from working in my head all day long, as a writer wandering down roads of the imagination. I remember back in my forties and fifties constantly finding myself on planes going to… somewhere. And then, somehow, I’d end up in an altered dream-state version of New

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  • Rocket Man

    Nothing to do, nothing to do, put a rocket in my shoe… Yeah, well, these days I wish I could. How is it one can be busy and focused pretty much one’s entire adult life and then suddenly hit a time where you get up, make a cup of coffee, retreat to the living room,

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  • Ambient Sounds

    Working on a new novel. This is a rough draft of chapter 1. *************** “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth. Shall you not know it? Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the wasteland.” He isn’t, thinks Declan McCaslin, peering at

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  • The Traitorous Knee – Part III

    Well, here I am in the eleventh week of recuperating from a total knee replacement and upon reflection, what I have to say is this. All the fellow tennis players I know who have gone through the procedure and told me they “wished they’d done it sooner”? They were either suffering from memory loss or

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