Single Sketches – Etched Episodes

Single Sketches

Etched Episodes

Edited by Lisa Laird

Philip G: “There is so much said about the plight of women and their encounters with the “bad boys.”  But what about the women who lie, cheat, and pretend to be who they’re not?  I just finished a stint with a near-fatal attraction, who set fire to my car, when I went away for the weekend with my family and she couldn’t find me.”

Carmela M:  Two years ago, my longtime boyfriend proposed to me on Saturday, after dodging the subject of marriage for three years, and disappeared suddenly the following weekend without a word.  I heard about him three months later, when my boss spotted him on a flight to Alaska. To this day, I don’t understand what happened, but I look at all new male acquaintances with a jaundiced eye.”                                                         

Lila K: “When I met this wonderful guy something told me he was too good to be true.  But I suppressed my suspicion and pressed on.  I was 50, and never married, and he made me feel like a teenager.  He was attentive and very generous. When he mentioned marriage, (not in proposal form) as if he were contemplating it with me, I floated off into a make-believe sunset, anticipating the actual question to be popped.  But in the midst of my euphoria, his wife rang my doorbell with his two children, and my joy was gone forever.”                                                 

Nate Q:  “I’ve had a couple of experiences that have made me very distrustful of women.   I met one woman with three children, who had never married, and who had suffered “abuse” at the hands of a former lover.  I fell for her and was willing to marry her and take care of her children.  I treated her like a queen and she left me (by way of note) to move to California with her former “abuser.”  I am still recuperating financially from the encounter and I have yet to  meet a woman who wasn’t all out for self.”