Stephen Metcalfe

playwright, screenwriter, and novelist

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  • the skull illuminating pose

    A chapter I cut from the final draft of Attachment Patterns. Kind of fun. * That afternoon Bob went to yoga.  He went to the one closest to his house.  It was called Bikram Yoga and Bob had noted any number of times, especially in summer, that attractive young women in tights and yoga tops…

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  • Burnout

     A new term has recently entered my lexicon.  Creative burnout is a lack of interest in the work and activities that have always been meaningful to you.  You doubt your ability to create anymore, you feel you’re no longer “good enough”, that you’ve lost whatever talent you once had.  You find yourself in a place…

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  • Polling Shows

    I was reading this morning that polling shows Donald Trump leading Joe Biden in five key elections states and I must say I was surprised.  Yes, I lean politically left and feel that Biden has done a good shop since taking office, and yes, I deplore Donald Trump and feel he has been a horrible…

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  • The Night Visitor

    The annual Christmas play It is 1981. A cold, grey kitchen.  A stove.  A fridge.  A stove with the oven door partly open to provide heat.  A table.  A single unlit Christmas candle on it. Bing Crosby’s How Lovely is Christmas is playing on the old radio. WAYNE and HORACE enter.  WAYNE is white and…

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  • The Casual Age

    Our is a casual age though it’s impossible to take casually.  Sportswear has happened.    It’s beyond the ruins.  I am, if you don’t know, paraphrasing the English writer, D.H. Lawrence, author of Lady Chatterley’s lover, who I doubt ever went out in anything but a coat and tie.  He might these days.  Casual has become…

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  • Book Club

    I had a zoom meeting with the WA Book club in Austin Texas this last week. The club’s president, RoseBetty Williams was generous enough to share her post meeting thoughts. I thought I’d share as well. My first impression? Who wrote this book? At our WA Book Club meeting this past Wednesday, we had an…

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