A Collection of Thoughts

Act I, Scene I Interior. JENNY and her BROTHER are in her bedroom, the afternoon sunlight streaming in through a window. JENNY holds a candle - it's white with coffee beans on the bottom.  Jenny: [shoving candle towards her brother] Eat it. Jenny's Brother: No. [furrows eyebrows, turning away] Jenny: [continues trying to shove it in her brother's face] Eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it! JENNY backs her BROTHER   into a corner with the coffee end of the candle pointed at his mouth, brandishing it like a sword.  Jenny's Brother: [nervous laughter] Stop it Jehhhh-nee or I’ll enable my force shield to turn your bones into dirt! Jenny: [sighs, stops pressuring her brother] Okay fine. [pause] Let’s light this and then blow it out. Let’s do it like twenty times in a row. It’ll be just like our birthday. Jenny's Brother: Why twenty? That’s too many times. Jenny: Fine, twenty-eight it is. Jenny's Brother: No. That’s more than twenty. Jenny: Oka...

As one should know, "Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They are Terrifying" by Alice Sola Kim is a story that revolves around the lives of three of adopted Korean girls - Caroline, Mini, and Ronnie. Each girl feels out of place, that they don't really belong in their adopted families. When they meet the Mom entity, they finally find a sense of belonging and ignore the fact that the Mom entity is really scary and possessive until it's too late. While "Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They are Terrifying" is a really good title, "Teen Idle" could also work as a title, in my opinion. The proposed alternate title comes from Marina and the Diamonds song of the same name - you can listen to it here . The title itself is a play on "teen idol," referencing how there is this idealized version of being a teenager, as well as "teen idle"/"idle teen" where a teen is just letting their life play out, not doing much....