Small Victories review
On her twentieth day sober, Marisol Montgomery has plans to make wings and play video games with her best friend. Then Aaron texts. A little noise from her phone is enough to wreck her good mood. Jade Madison Scott’s Washington, D.C. audio drama starts right there, with Marisol trying to hold on to a good day.
What a text can do to a room
The phone comes back in “The Lovers.” Marisol’s with Nina and Oliver while Aaron keeps texting her about what happened at his party. He’s somewhere else, but his messages keep interrupting the conversation in the room. When Nina realises Oliver knew something important about Marisol’s life before she did, the argument changes. The person Marisol wants to come home to has her own reasons to feel left out.
Start with “A Good Place To Start”
WGC Productions groups its scripts by season. Open the first entry, 101, for the transcript, cast credits and content notes. The same show page has a Listen Now section if you’d rather hear the actors. It’s worth going in order, especially through the early episodes with Nina. For another queer audio story that makes a lot out of a phone, Love and Luck tells its story through voicemails.
Julia Patrick designed the cover.
Anabel’s take
I’d give it through “The Lovers.” The part I kept thinking about was Nina asking why Marisol could tell Oliver and couldn’t tell her. By then I’d spent enough time in Marisol’s head to understand the excuse she was about to make. I still wanted to hear Nina’s side of it.