dialogue prompts from follow me to ground by sue rainsford.
why don’t you ever come with me?
try not to get too personal.
i don’t remember how i got by without you.
i like the sound of your name.
i was a long time in the desert.
it’s too nice a day to be stuck inside.
who do you think i’m going to tell?
i can’t remember a time when we were apart.
when have i ever been wrong?
sneaking around makes the time go slow.
tell me why you’re worried.
us girls must stick together.
think what you want. no one’s stopping you.
come for me after dark, and i’ll be ready.
you think you’re so strange. you’re not that strange.
i’ve been hiding and ignoring sickness my whole life.
people tried to tell me i was seeing things.
you’ll find something else that pleases you.
i can’t leave, and you can’t stay.
i’ve heard all sorts of things about you.
why don’t we just sit here a moment?
sometimes our feelings aren’t the best indications of what we should be doing.
i thought we were running away together.
there’s too much i haven’t seen.
you must have known i get lonely.
there’s no such thing as ‘like us’.
how can it be a mess when it’s exactly as i planned?
i think you overestimate your pull.
you’ve become a lot of things, but i know you’ve not become a fool.
you are the only precious thing.
no matter what, you laugh and look the other way.
you seem to be coping well.
am i very different than you expected?