His Legacy Is A Tomato
SUGGESTION: “the tomato harvest” · 6 LINES · 1 HR AGOMo
Jimbo, look at her. Twelve weeks of talking to this plant like it owed me money, and now she's heavier than my firstborn nephew.
Jimbo
It's gorgeous. You really did a good one. War and Peace every night.
Mo
Every night, Jimbo. Talked to her through two frosts and that raccoon scare in July, same as my granddad used to talk to his tomatoes before he handed the whole plot to me and said "don't you dare let 'em go to rot." Now help me lift her off the vine before I cry in front of the neighbors again.
A NOTE FROM THE BOOTH
Instead of just helping lift the tomato, let it slip out of your hands or reveal you have your own stake in this harvest — give Jimbo a want of his own right now.
Jimbo
I want this tomato for my pasta sauce.
Mo
Pasta sauce? Jimbo, this isn't a tomato, this is the last thing my granddad ever put his hands on before the hospital took him — you want to boil his legacy down with garlic and onions like it's a Tuesday.
Jimbo
It is Tuesday. And yeah his legacy is a tomato.
Like the shape of this one? Mo will happily go again.RUN THIS ONE WITH MO
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THE SCENE
LOCATION
a tomato garden/plant patch, the plot handed down from Mo's granddadRELATIONSHIP
friends, with Mo caretaking a plot inherited from his granddadMo
FEELING
indignant and hurt, grief flaring into anger as Jimbo mocks the tomato's meaningBELIEVES
not establishedWANTS
wants to carry on his granddad's legacy by not letting the tomato plot go to rot, and now specifically to protect this tomato from being reduced to pasta sauce since it's the last thing his granddad touched before the hospital took himJimbo
FEELING
unbothered and a little flippant, brushing off Mo's grief with dry humorBELIEVES
not establishedWANTS
wants the tomato for his own pasta sauce