This World and the Next

By Ann Ellen Flynn

From dogs and cats commiserating about their humans, to a reunion of saints, This World and the Next, by author Ann Ellen Flynn, offers a collection of short plays.

Humorous in content, these drama readings center around current events and popular news topics. In “The Reunion of the Aging Beauty Queens,” four former beauty pageant contestants gather to watch the Miss America pageant. The play “Say It Like It Is” features a little boy who wonders why families can’t get along. “Embarrassed” shares an example of how teachers deal with students and parents.

This World and the Next presents a compilation of quick skits meant to entertain and be fun.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Mar 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9781532067822

Ann Ellen Flynn

Ann Ellen Flynn, a retired teacher, enjoys acting in community theater. She is a mother, grandmother, and writer who lives in Somerset, Massachusetts.

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ISBN: 978-1-5320-6783-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5320-6782-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019901185

iUniverse rev. date: 03/16/2019

Contents

My Humans Part 1

My Humans Part 2: Together Again

Say It Like It Is

The Reunion of the Saints Part 1

The Reunion of the Saints Part 2

The Reunion of the Aging Beauty Queens

Mr. Johnson and Mr. Macbeth

Embarrassed

My Humans Part 1

(A dog and a cat commiserate about life with their owners. They are seated on a park bench in the middle of the afternoon. They are both males. Their humans are seen through the eyes of their pets.)

Dog: Ruff, ruff, ruff.

Cat: Meow, meow, meow. (The animal sounds will now be heard as words.)

Dog: Cat, I have not seen you in a while.

Cat: No, dog, my human keeps me in the house now, but I jumped out of the window.

The apartment office said that I was bothering people, so she keeps me in the house. I don’t know what I did. A couple