ONE SMALL BLOW AGAINST ENCROACHING TOTALITARIANISM
“I love us, in our madness, but we all need our own private unraveling and recentering daily if we’re going to survive this phase of America.” —
Harmony Holiday
Short Imagined Monologues
Send your short imagined monologues to websubmissions@mcsweeneys.net.
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June 18, 2018Monologue: Angela Chase from My So-Called Life, 39, Announces Bid for Congress
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June 5, 2018Monologue: I’m a Copy of Born to Run in a Bed Bath & Beyond and I’m Pulling Out of Here to Win
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June 4, 2018Monologue: Rilke Dangerfield
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May 31, 2018Monologue: It’s Me, Melania! I Am Right Here! Everything is Fine!
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May 2, 2018Monologue: I’m Your Outdoor Dream Girl and Not an Evil Wood Nymph Who Wants to Steal Your Soul
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April 25, 2018Monologue: As a New Yorker, I Am Many Things
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April 9, 2018Monologue: I’m a Woman On Vacation Doing Yoga and Why the Hell Did I Do This to Myself?
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April 5, 2018Monologue: I Am the Off-Screen Bathroom Renovation Project That Justifies the Male Lead’s Infidelity in This Indie Movie
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March 22, 2018Monologue: I’m Truth-O, Your New Honest Facebook Assistant!
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February 23, 2018Monologue: I’m Wayne LaPierre, and I Fight for Gun Rights Because Every Firearm Is a Sentient Being Containing the Souls of Our Ancestors
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February 9, 2018Monologue: I’m Just a Misunderstood Marbled Crayfish (Overlord) Who is Certainly Not Planning World Domination
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February 2, 2018Monologue: I’m Some Guy’s Ill-Informed Political Twitter Thread
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June 6, 2018Open Letter: An Open Letter to White Women Concerning The Handmaid’s Tale and America’s Cultural Amnesia
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June 12, 2018Whole30 Changed My Entire Relationship With Food Because I’m Dead Now
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June 8, 2018List: What Your Musical Instrument Says About You
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