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Sarah and Steve are getting married, they just can't agree on a location for their wedding. Unfortunately, one traditional option has shut it's doors to folks of their kind...or, more specifically, folks of their size. As the tolerance of the world around them grows smaller, these lovers push for something bigger.

Veronica is disillusioned with genius, so she tries yoga. Unfortunately, so do a couple of geniuses.

X and Y meet at the bus stop and try to figure each other out in this world of self-identity.

Perdy is trying to solve an almost 200-year-old murder mystery...from her basement. If only her pesky mom and these random decomposing women would leave her alone long enough to understand what really happened to the Dead Women of Jackson County.

Annie isn't OK. She's a lost 40 something that's stuck inside her own trite, mid-life crisis. She can't go over it. She can't go under it. She's gotta go through it - and it's from within that she finds the answers she needs. This is a coming-of-middle-age story. A cautionary tale for those that feel it's too late for them. Spoiler alert: It's never too late.

Malkie, Paddy and Harper are waiting...and, it's been a minute. Who they are waiting for might be less important than simply who they are, or where they come from, or why they are waiting in the first place? They are existential existentialists, who ponder the existence of existing. Oh, and they're weird. In a good way. Or a bad way. It's all subjective anyway, right?

The fairies Titania and Oberon are at a point in their eternal relationship where things are no longer working, and each of them thinks they know how to fix it, even though they are both hiding some major truths from each other. This is a play in deep conversation with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream that focuses on long-term relationships, the open road, and of course, fairies.

The increasing world of rural addiction creates a strange set of bed-fellows. A series of weekly meetings opens up old and new wounds on the road to recovery.

Beware of the Western section in the library. You never know what might happen, or who you might become.

A COVID-19 twist on characters from Romeo and Juliet.
Written for a Bake-Off competition in shelter, April 2020

Two sisters remotely dealing with shelter in place - in vastly different ways.
Written for round 2 of Quarantine Bake-Off April 2020.

What might happen if the bad virus consumes us all - can humanity rebound? Do we want to?
Written for the third round of Quarantine Bake-Off, May 2020.

Early in shelter, this family of three tries to keep an important tradition in place, even when it's clear the world is about to fall apart. Entry for the first round of Quarantine Bake-Off, March 2020.

Sometimes it takes distance, and a third party, to get to the heart of the matter.