Starving Sculptors Script [TESTED]

No. The marble doesn’t know it’s starving.

MAYA watches from her wheelchair, a pocketknife in one hand, a piece of linden wood in the other. She isn’t carving. Just holding. starving sculptors script

(quiet) The doctors said “sculpt your own ending.” I think that was their idea of a joke. a pocketknife in one hand

He walks to a shelf. Picks up a small sculpture—a woman reaching for something just out of frame. Maya carved it. He turns it over. On the base, in pencil: “For Leo – finish something.” starving sculptors script

LEO lowers his mallet. His hands shake—not from art. From hunger.

He also had patrons. We have pigeons.

Ridiculous people live forever in stories. Start us.