John David Brown

How honest are we allowed to be after someone has died—honest about the deceased, and honest about ourselves? This is the question a variety of characters grapple with while attending six funeral services in The Songs We Sing at Funerals, a dark comedy with a big heart.

After a stint in rehab, Levi returns home for a brief visit with his mother, Mandy, and his younger sister, Noelle. What should be a joyful reunion quickly unravels as Mandy's desperate need to keep her son close threatens his fragile sobriety, while Noelle plans her own escape from their mother's suffocating grip. As Mandy spirals into religious fervor and paranoia, both siblings must confront an agonizing question: How do you save yourself without abandoning someone you love?

When a CEO fires an executive assistant, the exit interview goes in an unexpected direction.

A journalist interviewing a prison inmate finds that nothing is more dangerous than someone with nothing left to lose.

After a world-altering shift in a power, one desperate young person seeks out a revolutionary to make a strange request.

A transfer student finds that the principal is not the final authority at his new high school.

Pete and Hallie weren't friends in high school. Now, she'd like to be more than friends.

Heather and Ethan are on a blind date. Things are going well until Heather reveals that she doesn't like dessert.

After six months of dating, Liv and Jake realize that neither of them has been fully telling the truth about their relationship.

When Nina shows up to comfort Penelope after a bad breakup, she wasn't expecting Nina to have brought a friend—a gallon of sweet tea.