Perv Jungle: my latest short script

Perv Jungle (short script)

After venturing into a forest known locally as ‘Perv Jungle’, two adolescent girls confront the explicit dangers and mundane disappointments of the grown-up world.

Last night I put the final touches on Perv Jungle, my latest short script.

It was adapted from a short story I wrote by the same name that won Lit POP some years back. I wrote it as a love letter to David Foster Wallace’s Forever Overhead — an achingly beautiful short story about a boy crossing the threshold into adolescence. I wanted to explore the “double burden” of female puberty. The metamorphosis and the new danger it brings. (And the relief we find inside our friendships.)