I was fortunate enough to see this play at the 2024 Midwest Dramatists Conference in Kansas City. This is the story of a romance between a man and...something else...in the midst of a tremendous, life-threatening, storm. A very imaginative short by Mr. Sickles that shows love can come in many forms.

A sad little love story between a man and his cryptid. The fact that you can feel so much for these two lovers as the deal with a great flood, the mortality of only one of them, and what the cost of love is.

This play had a staged reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference. Sickles’ treatment of the extraordinary is so heartfelt you forget it’s fantastical. The relationship he crafts in this short are so real, it makes me want to believe in compassionate monsters. I particularly appreciated the imagery and the corresponding sound and set possibilities. A lovely and unexpected love story.