The Line Shack

By Kevin Lōttes

Four young aircraft refuelers at a private airport struggle to learn to fly high and free like the pilots they serve.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kevin Lōttes
• Release date: Aug 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9780976241676

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 Line Shack

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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SCENE: In the darkness of the theatre, jetliners blast over the audience. The squeal of landing gears and air traffic control tower announcements can be heard. Lights rise, revealing an aircraft refueler lounge room. The place is ratty with only one entrance, no door. Fast food wrappings, old wrinkled newspapers, oil stained paper towels, and empty oilcans are scattered on the floor. A coffeemaker and condiments reside on top of a small cabinet positioned in the corner. Inside the cupboard are cleaning supplies: paper towels, cans of air refresher, Windex, garbage bags, etc. There is an old, wooden picnic table. Against the upstage wall is a set of gym lockers with Chuck and Hoover written in black marker across strips of masking tape stuck to the locker doors. Ripped aviation posters and aircraft memorabilia litter the walls and lockers. HOOVER and CHUCK sit at the picnic table. HOOVER smokes a cigarette, drinks a cup of coffee, and reads an issue of Popular Science. He attempts to put together a model airplane. CHUCK smokes a cigarette, reading from Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations. A pen and blank pad of paper lie on the table next to him. HOOVER and CHUCK wear the official aircraft refueler uniform: a bright orange shirt with their names embroidered, brown cut-off pants, tennis shoes, and a CB radio attached to their belt. ENU, the janitor, wears a blue janitor’s outfit. He sweeps the floor, gathers trash, and sprays air-refresher in an effort to clean up the place. On occasion, ENU stops and sits to take a break from his cleaning duties. During these breaks, he has developed the habit of making paper airplanes from old newspaper pages lying on the floor, throwing them across the