by Carla René
It was the most perfect atmosphere to write that anyone would ever find. Well, as far as bathrooms-slash-tranquility rooms go. I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and surrendered to whatever creativity Sid would graciously bestow on me. After thirty minutes of trying to reach Sid telepathically, I opened my eyes and stared at my blank screen for another thirty minutes, my fingers never touching the keys.
"Dammit."
"Now what's the matter?" she screeched from the other room.
"I'm blocked."
THE END.
About the author:
A child-prodigy in both fine art and music, Carla knew creativity would be a large part of her life. After finishing college with a BS in Trumpet Performance, an illness limited her trumpet time, so she fell back on her acting minor and began acting with a local theatre who wrote all their own original comedies. It was here she got her first taste of improvisation, and fell in love. Soon, she was studying with Second City in Chicago, as well as stand-up comedy. She was filming TV sitcoms, performing comedy at The Kennedy Centre in DC, and eventually was the first-call comedic actress for video work. While continuing to act, she was learning how to write effective comedy; began performing stand-up, and soon branched out into comedic fiction. She still performs regularly on-stage in plays, for video and film, improvisational comedy groups, stand-up comedy, and this winter will be touring her original one-woman comedy show. And the rest, as they say, is gut-busting, lung-popping, hysterical-head-aching comedic history.
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