Short-Short: 'Acute Curtain Call Addiction' *Weekly Short-Short Note 10/5 Prompt

The curtain falls on the stage again today.
While the excitement of the climax is still fresh, the actors exit to thunderous applause.
However, the actors are then called back by the never-ending applause and calls for an encore.
The so-called curtain call.
This moment is my time of bliss.

I am neither an actor nor an extra.
I am just an audience member.
But I make it my job to do what even the actors, the director, or the stage manager cannot.
To pull the actors back onto the stage.
To not let the stage end so easily.
That is my pride.
Some audience members might judge this as boorish.
In fact, I have been begged many times, saying things like, 'Please, just let it end already.'
But that has nothing to do with me.

'I'm sorry, but I'm powerless; it's the end of the show.'
The stage manager shakes his head.
The audience breaks down in tears.
Ah, my bad habit is acting up again.
'If it were me, I could call him back from here.'
This might be a kind of illness, too.
'Don't be a fool... there's nothing more that can be done.'
I don't even want to see the end of the stage.

'I will definitely bring the actor back to the stage. Take him to the operating room!'

A curtain call in the name of a medical miracle on the stage where the curtain has fallen.
I love the moment the actor breathes life back into himself more than anything.
I love the moment I shock the family who are soaking in the afterglow of the stage.

This might as well be called curtain call addiction.

↓ I participated in this project. This one was particularly difficult.