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This is a creepy, fantastic, suspenseful play that is good to the last drop. Cannot recommend this enough.

The best 10-minute plays bring you characters whose richness suggest a depth outside of the tiny piece you're getting. This is one of those. A complete piece about a girl whose life is so much worse than the house fire she just experienced. This one will stay with you.

This haunting account of a farmhouse fire by a young woman is riveting. Her account is far scarier than most festival horror plays. And that account is riveting more for what it reveals about herself, her family life and relationship with her father, and her interaction with the Fire Marshal than the actual fire. The character feels so believable from a perspective of naturalism but also unlike any girl you've met before because the play comes across as this Midwestern Gothic-meets-Horror play. What Salsbury achieves in a few pages, her ability to create such a compelling personality is outstanding.

I saw this read at the Midwest Dramatists Conference, and it changed my mind about non-comedy short plays. The teenage girl is so absolutely chilling, there were times during the reading I realized I had stopped breathing. A terrifying account full of gothic elements. Highly recommended.