Not Any Little Girl (a One-Act Play)

Not Any Little Girl is a dark one-act crime play by Trent Zelazny, built around violence, consequence, and the emotional pressure that leads a person toward murder. The play centres on Grant Harrington, a man forced into the killing of a teenage girl named Lecy Newsted, and examines the fear, desperation, guilt, and moral collapse surrounding the act. Compact, direct, and disturbing, it belongs naturally to the Black Curtain line: a short dramatic work with crime at its core and a noir-adjacent interest in what people become when the ordinary safeguards of conscience fail.

First produced in Santa Fe in 2012, Not Any Little Girl shows Zelazny working in a compressed theatrical form rather than fiction, using the one-act structure to intensify motive, confrontation, and aftermath. For readers of contemporary crime drama, short plays, psychological suspense, dark literary fiction, and noir-influenced theatre, this edition presents a lean, unsettling work by a writer associated with crime, horror, mystery, and fantastical fiction.