Haunting and powerful. With a scant 30 words, Marilyn Ollett crafts a gripping, heart-wrenching piece that gave me shivers. This brilliant piece leaps off the page, and I’d love to see it staged.

30 single words - used as many times as possible to create an engaging scene - that was the task, but what MARILYN OLLETT does with those words is so powerful... so haunting. Never have stage directions meant so much for a cast, as they do in this emotionally charged one minute. WOW.

Its incredible how much power can come from few words! You would think its hard to cover crime, investigation and solution in just 30 words but Marilyn not only does this but she does it with tremendous power and emotion. The use of the actions in the stage directions gives the piece subtext in spades, which works brilliantly in light of the words restriction. Its a brilliantly created powerful piece that proves you can say a lot with very few words!