SAM
WOOD
THE OVERWHELMING URGE TO BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED
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Eight distant people reconvene at a large suburban house to mourn and celebrate their deceased mutual friend. The atmosphere is a delicate balance of youthful energy, hope, romance, grief, loss and ennui. The night descends from joking and bickering into total stupor, and everyone eventually must reckon with their tested relationships and concepts of self.
THE NOTION OF CONTROL
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Circe is leaving town to start a new life. She has many opportunities ahead of her, and a series of choices. Will she get the job? Will she stay with her partner? Will she find a place? At her going-away party, and as a particularly violent storm approaches, everything comes to a head. That's act 1. Act 2 is a game of soccer.
MRS. PENROSE
Short Story
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Mrs. Penrose seeks pleasure of any kind to escape her dull life. We follow her through relationships, obsessions, defeats, and idleness, and ultimately, she must choose between comfort and boredom, or radical change.
THE VACATIONERS
Short Play - 10 Minutes
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Stuck at an airport, long-time partners Cliff and Bea must pass the time anyway they can: small talk, idle jokes, memories. Their effort reveals a long-standing bitterness between them, and the two must reckon with their now tested relationship, and how to go about their as-yet unexamined lives.
THE FACULTY &
MS. S. E. MOSKOWITZ
Novel - Sample
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Though she doesn't appear until chapter four, which is altogether strange for a book that (for all blurbs and intents) is about her, and don't worry she doesn't mind, Ms. S. E. Moskowitz follows a tangled web of relationships, conspiracies, empty offices, faculty lounges and utter catastrophes around the university she works at leading up to the creation of the 27th letter of the alphabet, and a botched heist, and a botched assassination attempt, and a botched relationship. Everything ends up botched, essentially.
LANDER COUNTY
Novel - Sample
Your old friend K sends you a package. It's a the living history of Lander County, a catalog of an obscure and forgotten district in Wyoming. It was sent to K by Frances, who claims to be the only person still living there. The document describes the lives and fates of everyone who used to reside there, all 104 people. Written by several authors, it's hard to tell what's factual and what's editorial, but by reading, you discover many intersecting lives, complex relationships, and an appreciation for the strange and sentimental feelings that can only be felt by living in solitude at the edge of the world.