Category: Writings
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The Lost Ball by Cindy Marvell
The Lost Ball (a juggling story workshopped at Celebration Barn Theater with Benny Reehl) By Cindy Marvell In the beginning there was nothing special about her. She was just a girl like other girls. She played along in other people’s games and fell into the rhythm of their ways. Until one day she found a…
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Spacers by Cindy Marvell
SPACERS We Climbed Five green steps Shaped like mushrooms. With Hunter on ground crew Creating flares of hot momentum— Bidding the paradox of Earth goodbye— Astronaut Addison and I stood ready to fly. She Looked new To galactic travel. Hair curling in waves, Face shining through a mask, She reached for the second…
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Shadow Princess by Cindy Marvell and Tamara Fielding
Shadow Princess: An Indonesian Story a film script by Cindy Marvell and Tamara Fielding Cindy Marvell 319 Spruce St. Boulder, CO 80302 303-506-7724 TEASER EXT. JAVA, NIGHT KARTO SUPRAPTO, (17), a promising, ambitious Dalang, or shadow puppet master, casts images from behind a white story cloth. Puppets array either side of the screen from the…
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Magic Carpet by Cindy Marvell
Magic Carpet by Cindy Marvell Forever poised for flight, arranged With care, The seven wait to be exchanged mid-air; A moment of release, a change So rare, The forces of the world are held at bay. When kept in flight, a tapestry They weave Whose untied threads are ever free To leave; This hopeless task…
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Coastal Exchange by Cindy Marvell
Coastal Exchange by Cindy Marvell I. The Toss Running toward the ship, we race the sea breeze Down the shoulder-shaped slant of the cliff, Sinking intothe gray parking-lot palm Which cradles the jugglers and all of the gear In a last embrace. Just so a thousand tiny fingers felt The brightly quivering soft…