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Topic: Embarrassed (07/19/07)
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TITLE: The Yesterday Show | Previous Challenge Entry
By Seema Bagai
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“Our first guest has quite a story to tell. From outside the Garden, please welcome Eve to our show. Eve, please tell us about your embarrassing moment.”
“I was out in the Garden one afternoon, picking fruit and enjoying the sunshine. The next thing I knew, the serpent came up to me and told me about the tree in the middle of the Garden, the one we weren’t allowed to touch. The fruit on that tree was the most beautiful of all the fruit in the garden. I believed what the serpent said about gaining wisdom. It sounded tempting and I gave in. I ate the fruit and gave some to my husband. Immediately after that, we realized we needed to cover ourselves with leaves. Then the LORD came looking for us and we hid from Him. Adam blamed me, but it was the serpent’s fault. He told me the lies about the fruit and I listened. Now we can’t live in the Garden anymore. I’m so ashamed.”
“Thanks for sharing your story with us. Our next guest is Sarai, sorry, I meant Sarah. Glad you joined us. Please tell us about your embarrassing moment.”
“I was sitting in our tent when my husband, Abraham, burst in and told me to bake bread for some visitors. While they were eating, the LORD said I would have a son. I started laughing. It was the most absurd thing I’d ever heard. Women my age don’t have children. I laughed and then lied about it. Not my proudest moment. I really didn’t God would give me a child. Fortunately, the LORD was gracious and gave Abraham and me our precious son, Isaac.”
“Sounds like your story had a happy ending. But, you have another embarrassing story in your past. Here to tell it in her own words is your maidservant, Hagar.”
“My mistress was unhappy all the time because she did not have any children. Day after day, she worried and complained about it. One day, she gave me to her husband to be his wife. After she found out I was to have his child, she treated me harshly. So, I ran away from her and went out into the desert. I did come back, though, because the LORD came to me and said I had to return.”
“Sarah, looks like you forgot that Hagar having a child was your idea. Thanks, Hagar, for sharing. Moving on, our final guest for today is Jonah. He’s come all the way from Nineveh to tell us his embarrassing moment.”
“The LORD asked me to go to Nineveh to preach. I was terrified. They were our enemies. So, I jumped on a ship that was headed as far away from Nineveh as I could get. Once we were out at sea, a huge storm came and scared the sailors. They knew I had run away from the LORD. The storm was all my fault, so I told them to throw me overboard, which they did. The next thing I knew, I was inside an enormous fish that had swallowed me whole. It was dark, cold, and smelled disgusting. For three days and nights I was trapped inside the beast. I was humiliated, but, once I prayed, the LORD released me. I obeyed Him and went to Nineveh.”
“Thanks, Jonah. Viewers, you’ve heard some truly embarrassing stories today. Tune in tomorrow for part two of our show when our guests will include Martha, Peter, and Thomas. Thanks for watching 'The Yesterday Show'.”
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It'd be even more engaging, I think, if not told as all-dialogue. Consider either making it a skit (with stage directions and parenthetical notes to the performers), or a narrative story with some description and action between the dialogue.
Love your last line about the next days' guests--I can just imagine what embarrassing stories they'd tell!