First.

Larrisa. Did you meet Magalie?
Alun. I did.
Larrisa. How was it? Did she play for you?
Alun. She did.
Larrisa. Well how was it?
Alun. It was like walking through a path in the forest alone during the late evening. The moon lit the sky above and the branches crisscrossed in a quiet, breathing wind.
Larrisa. The music was like that?
Alun. At first I was not ready to go into the forest, but it was the only path to walk. The forest was too thick to go anywhere else. So I continued deeper into the forest and it seemed like the path behind me erased itself. I could not go back from where I came.
Larrisa. Do you know where you were going?
Alun. That's the thing. I knew there was something in the forest itself. I had to find it. So I started looking off through the trees and branches. I knew there was something out there.
Larrisa. Did you find anything?
Alun. I did find something off of the path. It was a stone like the ones that you would step on to cross a shallow creek. When I saw it, I knew there was something under it, but when I reached out, two tree trunks stopped me short. I tried to wedge my shoulder between the trees so that my fingers barely scratched the ruggedness of the stone.
Larrisa. Did you get to it?
Alun. No, but then Magalie stopped playing and the forest disappeared. The stone disappeared. I wanted her to continue, but she said she couldn't. The music that she played was too dark, like drowning in a pulling current.

Second.

Alun. Why did you stop?
Magalie. This is too overwhelming. I felt like I was drowning in a pulling current.
Alun. Do you need take a break?
Magalie. Yes, but I do not think I can play anymore. Not today at least.
Alun. I was so close to getting to the stone.
Magalie. What stone?
Alun. You didn't put it there?
Magalie. Put what where?
Alun. There was a stone in the forest that I couldn't get to. I know there's something hidden under it, but the trees held me back.
Magalie. What do you think was under the stone?
Alun. I don't know. I'm hoping that you might know. I felt like I was about to discover something about you.
Magalie. I think that stone is yours. Not mine.
Alun. Really? I thought I was going through a forest that you created.
Magalie. That forest was yours.
Alun. Was I drowning you?
End. Current Possession

Eoin. A while back someone predicted that I was going to be lonely. He read my palm and told me a couple of things about me, but then he said that I was going to be lonely.
Magy. Are you lonely now?
Eoin. I guess so, but I wasn't sure if he meant that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life or there will be a great moment of loneliness that I will experience.
Magy. Where is this person? Maybe you can go back and ask him.
Eoin. I can't. He's in India.
Magy. Were you lonely in India?
Eoin. I guess I was. And that's the thing. Was he just talking about my time in India, or was the prediction stretching my life's span?
Magy. Did you have a great moment of loneliness in India?
Eoin. I don't know how great it was. I wasn't lead to talking to strangers or anything. I think I went thought a sort of celebrity loneliness.
Magy. What is that?
Eoin. It's like this: One time I traveled alone to a hill station in India to escape the heat, and on the way there, our bus pulled into a bus station to refuel. We had about twenty minutes to stretch out. I think I bought a chai. There were a lot of travelers that day - mostly men for some reason. So there I was at a bus station sitting at a bench sipping on chai. There was this little girl who was staring at me, then she finally came up to me and asked for my name. When I told her, she went straight to a policeman and started to point at me.
Magy. Did you do something?
Eoin. The policeman approached me and asked me for my passport. I was a little confused, so I asked him what it was all about. He showed me a poster in his hand with a photo of someone who looked like me who was wanted for something I didn't do.
Magy. Did he understand that it wasn't you?
Eoin. Eventually, but while I was explaining who I was and was not, it seemed like most of the men in the station surrounded us trying to find out what was going on.
Magy. So you were the celebrity.
Eoin. I was lonely traveling like that.
Magy. Did they ever catch the guy?
Eoin. I don't know. I was hoping to meet the guy at the hill station. I could have told him to avoid the station.
Magy. You know, I think I experienced a great moment of loneliness when I returned to college. I came back in the middle of the school year and all the friends I made when I first went were gone. I just had no friends. I didn't want to bother with joining clubs and going to parties by myself so all I did was study in the library, listen to music in my room, and rent movies. I guess I could have asked a guy to help me with studying or something stupid like that, but I didn't. I was so paranoid about my loneliness. It probably wasn’t true, but I could feel the campus could see that had no friends. I must have seemed pathetic. The worst moment was when the Campus Theater decided to screen The Graduate. I had to see it, but going to a theater by yourself has to be the worst. I arrived fifteen minutes too early, and I sat there waiting through every grinding second for the lights to go out and Simon and Garfunkle to take me out of there. I will never go to a theater alone.
Eoin. You're okay now, aren't you?
Magy. Sure. I'm fine now. But what about you? Are you lonely?
Eoin. I guess I am, but I wouldn’t call it a great loneliness, so I'm not too worried. It just reminded me of the time that man predicted that I was going to be lonely.
Magy. Are you depressed? You sound depressed.
Eoin. It's been a while, but I think I am.
End. Great Moment of Loneliness

Thaddea. Have we ever been here before? I don't think we've been here before.
Haluk. It's one of the first places we've been to. Don't you remember?
Thaddea. I don't remember. Are you sure it was with me? Maybe you're mixing me up with some other girl. Some other girl you dated before me.
Haluk. I definitely remember that the girl I was with was this absolutely gorgeous girl. Beautiful.
Thaddea. I think I have been here before.
End. Placed With What is Fair

Micaela. Do you consider me as your equal?
Kacper. I don’t think so. You do come up to me for advice, so I would say I am slightly wiser in a way.
Micaela. In what way?
Kacper. I don’t know. Things like keeping monkeys away from the camp, that sort of thing.
Micaela. That doesn’t seem to be very important.
Kacper. What’s important then?
Micaela. Relationships would be one.
Kacper. Do you need help with your relationships?
Micaela. No, I don’t think so.
Kacper. I wouldn’t think so. You seem pretty grounded.
Micaela. Thanks.
Kacper. But if you did need help, I might be able to help.
Micaela. Is that another thing you’re wiser?
Kacper. What do you think?
Micaela. Well, you’re getting married. Maybe you do have a slight advantage. I’m not close to being married. I think I need to know what it means to be married before I go forward.
Kacper. The first night I arrived in India, I met a girl from Japan. She was staying in the same hostel, but she was traveling alone. It was very curious. Why was this girl traveling alone in India?
Micaela. Why was she?
Kacper. I didn’t ask.
Micaela. Why? Did you like her?
Kacper. She was attractive. She was one of those girls that a dozen guys would be attracted to at the same time.
Micaela. Do you think I’m one of those girls?
Kacper. I remember my neighbor wrote a song about her. Kaiyo was her name. He was lying on his bed with his legs against the wall and his guitar on his stomach singing about Kaiyo.
Micaela. Kaiyo. I can’t tell if that’s a pretty name or not.
Kacper. I did find out what her story was from the neighbor. She was getting married, so she decided to travel to India before she got married.
Micaela. Sounds like she was figuring out what it meant to be married.
Kacper. I think we all have our thoughts and words on marriage.
Micaela. What are yours?
Kacper. I’ll let you know when I’m married.
Micaela. Do you think Kaiyo ever figured out what it means to be married?
Kacper. She would have been married for eight years now. I would hope so.
Micaela. I guess she’s that much wiser.
Kacper. I didn't know anything when I was in India.
End. Eight Years Wiser