My children cut me off when I enrolled in college using my family inheritance.
On graduation day I was both devastated and proud, but everything changed when I came home and saw something I had never seen before.
While reading on the couch, my favorite activity, I glanced sideways at my friends, Ryan and James, who were sitting in front of the television. Their eyes shifted between me and them, nervously. The stillness continued until it became unbearable for me.
One night, out of habit, I looked at my cell phone hoping to see a message from James or Ryan. I found nothing. Not a word since our altercation. I had been completely cut off. No jokes at Christmas, no calls on birthdays. I was truly alone.
Although fictionalized for artistic purposes, this play is based on real people and real events. For reasons of privacy and story improvement, names, characters and details have been changed. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, or to actual events is entirely accidental and is not the author’s intention.