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Merendia is a democracy divided.
One side fears disorder. The other fears oppression. Each believes the greatest danger to the country is what will happen if the other side takes power.
Then a bomb in Carth Square kills 117 people.
A new law promises security. A surveillance provision stops the next attack. An emergency directive restores order....

Dennis Mumford is a quiet man with a quiet life. He wears the same gray suits, drinks half a cup of coffee every morning, and translates documents no one else wants to read.
Then his wife has an affair with a man named Larry.
At almost the same time, a mysterious object arrives from somewhere beyond Earth, covered in symbols no one can understand....

When physicist Archer Bancroft perfects human teleportation, he believes he has changed the world forever.
Then his wife steps into the machine — and never comes out.
The science is undisputed. Bancroft’s invention doesn’t move a person from one place to another. It destroys the original and reconstructs an identical human being somewhere else,...

Elaine Hargrove thought she was buying her freedom.
After years trapped in a controlling marriage, she hires a professional killer to make her husband disappear. The murder goes exactly as planned.
Then the phone rings.
The killer has recorded everything. Every meeting. Every payment. Every word. And now he has a new assignment.
Kill a complete...

Sal Bianchi knows how to run a crew.
He knows robberies, bookmakers, protection, and what happens when somebody breaks the rules.
What he doesn’t know is what to do with an alien.
It was supposed to be the score that put Sal and his boys back on the map: a mysterious warehouse, federal-level security, and something inside supposedly worth more than...

A quiet town. A crashed military transport. A secret the government will kill to keep. From Sand to Shadows is a propulsive, deeply human thriller about power, silence, and the cost of a secret hidden beneath the American desert — told through the voices of the people who lived there, the officials who erased them, and the journalist who spent a...

When nineteen-year-old Osana leaves the Bronx with the man she believes will change her life, she thinks she’s finally escaped the poverty and chaos she grew up with. But one reckless decision shatters everything, leaving her stranded in Texas with a newborn daughter, no money, and nowhere to turn.
Back in the Bronx, surrounded by old temptations...

The pursuit of love can be a dangerous dance.
Jimmy is a sanitation worker in New York, with a wife and two young children. The classic image of the American Dream. For Jimmy, his life is monotonous and leaves him wondering if he will ever experience real passion.
Until one day he sees Osana, a beautiful young woman, from the wrong side of town,...

The action of the play involves the forces of Cato at Utica, located in the kingdom of Numidia (current day Tunisia/Algeria region of Northern Africa). Cato, a Roman Statesman and follower of the Stoic philosophy, was on the losing side of a civil war against Julius Caesar. Cato sees Caesar as an enemy of the Roman Republic’s history of liberty,...

Rome was dying.
Julius Caesar had crushed every army sent against him, and only one man remained unwilling to kneel.
Within the walls of Utica, Cato gathered the last defenders of the Republic while Caesar’s legions closed in. Around him, loyalty faltered, conspiracies grew, forbidden loves blossomed, and every decision carried the weight of...

This one hour play is a modern English version of Ewing Rafferty’s 1916 play by the same name.
The plot revolves around how Vanity, Conquest, Wealth and the Leader of a people set out to and convince Everyman to carry out a plan for war to enrich themselves and have the common people bear all the pain and suffering for it.
It is (unfortunately) a...