Two soon to be sisters-in-law from different cultural backgrounds struggle within a family framework where the brother and sister have kept the family secrets and tragedies at an emotional distance. This summer getaway with the two related couples heightens cultural pretensions and truths with tragic and comic consequences. We ask how well do we know… Continue reading READING – Machines Eat People by Max Gill

Nearly a year after the shooting death of his 5-year-old daughter, John is spiraling into oblivion, obsessed with photographing the playground where she died. His wife Abby, desperate to save herself from her own despair, concocts a plan to confront the man responsible with the help of John’s brother. As they face the consequences of… Continue reading READING – Ground Glass by Jonathan Kravitz

Vallie Downe is a retired environmental activist. He’s enjoying the benefits of his newfound bougie lifestyle when he’s suddenly called back into duty. Will he be able to give up the comforts of the couch and relight his activist fire.

Mae has a simple life, typing memos.  Something is missing. Is it her dead-end marriage, or the lingering feeling of abandonment when her father left 36 years ago. It all seems to change when she goes to the Agency for the Lost, a quasi-detective firm with a founder who has a penchant for cigarettes and… Continue reading READING – Agency for the Lost by Serena Norr

What comedy becomes of two women trying to come to terms with a world they no longer recognize? Three tableaus rolled into a lifelong friendship seeking new ground.