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    Love Song in Sixteen Bars
    Love Song in Sixteen Bars
    Love Song in Sixteen Bars
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    Love Song in Sixteen Bars

    By Colin Garrow

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    Ever been in one of those relationships? You know - the ones that don't work? Whenever Shona embarks on a new relationship, she always ends up getting dumped. So when her latest one starts to hit the rocks, she decides to find out why. Seen from two different points of view, two couples display their love lives and drinking habits as we follow them through 16 bars in a drink-fuelled, kebab-munching exhibition that culminates in a shocking secret...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherColin Garrow
    Release dateJul 31, 2015
    ISBN9781310377532
    Love Song in Sixteen Bars
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    Colin Garrow

    Colin Garrow grew up in a former mining town in Northumberland. He has worked in a plethora of professions including: taxi driver, antiques dealer, drama facilitator, theatre director and fish processor, and has occasionally masqueraded as a pirate. All Colin's books are available as eBooks and most are also out in paperback, too. His short stories have appeared in several literary mags, including: SN Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Word Bohemia, Every Day Fiction, The Grind, A3 Review, 1,000 Words, Inkapture and Scribble Magazine. He currently lives in a humble cottage in North East Scotland where he writes novels, stories, poems and the occasional song.

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      Love Song in Sixteen Bars - Colin Garrow

      Love Song in Sixteen Bars

      By Colin Garrow

      Distributed by Smashwords

      Copyright 2015 Colin Garrow

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      ...comic and intelligent look in the bleak and problematic elements of four characters whose relationships are irrevocably intertwined.

      Nicole Hepburn - The Skinny

      Characters:

      Shona: 30-something

      Caz: 30-something

      Pete: 30-something

      Gary: 30-something

      ‘Love Song in Sixteen Bars’ was first performed on 18 April 2010, at the Lemon Tree Aberdeen, Scotland, with the following cast:

      Shona: Louise Ballantyne

      Caz: Jessica Hernandez

      Pete: Colin Garrow

      Gary: Martin Bearne

      CONTENTS

      Scene 1: The Pig and Bucket

      Scene 2: The Frog and Nightgown

      Scene 3: Outside the Riverboat Pub

      Scene 4: The King Billy

      Scene 5: The Hunter’s Dog

      Scene 6: The Sour Grapes

      Scene 7: The Newt and Badger

      Scene 8: The Squeaky Todger

      Scene 9: The Pig and Bucket

      Scene 10: The Frog and Nightgown

      Scene 11: Outside The Riverboat Pub

      Scene 12: The King Billy

      Scene 13: The Hunter’s Dog

      Scene 14: The Sour Grapes

      Scene 15: The Newt and Badger

      Scene 16: The Squeaky Todger

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      Scene 1: The Pig and Bucket

      Shona is sitting at a table. She takes out a mobile phone.

      SHONA

      Oh, you’re alive, are you? Yeah, I know, I’m here, aren’t I? She’s in the bog. Right. See you. What? Fuck off yourself. Yeah. Bye.

      Enter Caz with a drink.

      CAZ

      Hiya darlin'.

      SHONA

      Where’s me drink?

      CAZ

      You said you’d get your own.

      SHONA

      I said Get Me One. What’re you like?

      CAZ

      Sorry, pet. Give us a minute and I’ll away to the bar. Ooh, that’s better. Hey, brilliant here, isn’t it? (To Audience) Hiya. Alright eh? Cheers. Is she keeping you entertained? (To Shona) Where’ve you got to?

      SHONA

      I haven‘t. We’re starting with the first meeting.

      CAZ

      Right-oh. (To audience) Well, I met Gary one Saturday night in Kevin’s Kebab Shop…

      SHONA

      Hang on, Caz, hang on. This is about me and Pete, not you and Gary...

      CAZ

      I know. I’m filling in the background stuff. Set the scene and that…

      SHONA

      Oh. Sorry, I didn’t mean…

      CAZ

      You’re alright, love. (To Audience) She’s still a bit upset.

      SHONA

      I’m not.

      CAZ

      It’s fine, babes.

      SHONA

      I’m not upset.

      CAZ

      Okay, you don’t have to explain.

      SHONA

      I’m fine.

      CAZ

      I’ll get you a drink.

      SHONA

      I’m bloody fine, alright?

      CAZ

      Right, you’re fine. Okay. Look, you do your bit and I’ll get you a lager.

      SHONA

      Brandy and coke.

      Caz goes.

      SHONA

      Ever been in one of those relationships? You know - the ones that don’t work? Oh, not her…Caz…she’s me mate. No, I’m talking about men. See, I think when a man and a woman get together one of two things happens…either they actually like each other and have a dead good time, or they fight like fuck and carry on fighting whatever happens. Another possibility, one I’m familiar with myself, their relationship very quickly begins to spiral towards the inescapability of calamity - somewhere between that first romantic encounter when their eyes meet across a crowded

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