The Little Monsters
by Alan Bowne

THE LITTLE MONSTERS tells the story of, in the author's words: Maurice, a bald myopic WASP in his late 50s; Kip, a slight, plain, scruffy male in his late teens, of Irish extraction; 3-Yard, a coarse, handsome, well-built male in his late teens, of Italian extraction; and Gooey, a plump, flashy, Jewish female in her late teens — a hitter.

From Interview

, August 1987 by Kevin Sessums:

"There's a creature known in the South as a feist dog.

Little.

Scraggly.

High-strung.

You know where one lives by a backyard full of barks.

The thing'll take on a German shepard — shit, the whole German army — if it thinks its territory is being threatened.

But it likes kids too.

And it likes the feel of a hand on its underbelly.

Playwright and screenwriter Alan Bowne, whose work concerns the scraggly underbelly of life itself, has the friendly tenacity of one of those tight-tailed mutts … Bowne didn't start writing until he was 35.

Before that?

'I bummed around.

Drug dealer.

Movie extra.

Junkie …' He begins to growl away at a number of subjects … Love: 'Living without love is death itself.

If you have love in your life — the true thing — then you've got everything.'"