Lullaby for a Grown Man
Year of writing:
2011
Female: 3
In a small country by the sea three generations of women share a home - a grandmother, a wife and a daughter. But where is the man of the house? His kit bag is packed for The Front. The door to the bedroom is locked. Is he there? Can he speak? Has he left to fight? Or has he come and gone?
As the women chatter and bicker, days pass. The teenage daughter plays on her phone, flies start to buzz around the bedroom door… and three women sing a lullaby to the bees that are slowly vanishing from the face of the earth…