The Leash of the Rainbow's Meow

By Kevin Lōttes

Set in a prison barber salon, The Leash of the Rainbow's Meow takes us to the burdens of an overcrowded prison, the pseudo-suicidal acts incurred, and a warden's rhapsody of emotional suppression, corruption, and a last desperate reach for release.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kevin Lōttes
• Release date: Jul 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9780976241638

Kevin Lōttes

Kevin Lōttes (pronounced “lotus”) won the Bob Dylan Days first-place prize for fiction in 2008. He is the author of the story collection, First Person Last. He is the playwright of several produced plays, including The Leash of the Rainbow's Meow, The Line Shack, Paralyzed July, San Francisco Scarecrows, and Two Mrs. & Ablaze. His selected prose appears in The Good Things About America (Write Bloody Publishing). Monologues from his numerous plays appear in Classroom Scenes and Monologues (Dramatic Publishing) and in several editions of the Audition Arsenal Anthology Series (Smith & Krauss, Inc.). He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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The Leash of the Rainbow’s Meow

a play by Kevin Lottes

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Copyright 2013

Smashwords Edition.

This ebook is a work of dramatic fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

This ebook play format is designed for the reading public only. All dramatic rights are fully protected by copyrights, and no public or private performances---professional or amateur---and no public readings for profit may be given without written permission of the author and the payment of a royalty. Anyone disregarding the author's rights renders himself liable to prosecution. Communications should be addressed to the author, Kevin Lottes, 1407 Chesterton Square North Columbus, Ohio 43229 or by email: [e-mail].

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Let no debt remain outstanding,

except the continuing debt

to love one another,

for he who loves his fellowman

has fulfilled the law.

---Romans 13:8

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Characters

HARLEN---male, forties, the prison warden, sits and smokes in the barber’s chair. He is an extremely brute and precise man. He is well-groomed in a simple fashion and looks at you with delicate, southern eyes. He smokes like a locomotive. He is the kind of man that barks back at the dogs among masculine company, but could equally be caught crying to scenes from Terms of Endearment in his private quarters on any given