If your life-span is one hour, what are your options? Chick, Sam, Patty, and Frances are bugs just emerging after 17 years underground. Chick and Patty are raring to do what comes naturally. Frances knows, and Sam learns, they've got just 60 minutes to do it in.

Percival, a scientific rationalist who studies and catalogues solitary lost gloves, meets Kitty the romantic southern belle, who loses lots of gloves and seeks their missing mates (and hers).

A production of “Banquo (Exclamation point!)” is plagued by suspicious deaths. Is it the curse of the Scottish Musical?

Phillip Cacciatore has quit raising ornamental chickens to pursue his life's true passion, collecting string, and to solve the mystery surrounding the tragic demise of his visionary string-collecting hero. Research materials are under the control of Ms. Cantabile, a reference librarian with a Past -- which his queries threaten to expose.

At a local bookstore, Melanie Palomar reads from New and Selected Poems of Melanie Palomar, whose publication the Macbeth Foundation has subsidized with a Near Genius Grant of $250. Melanie demands your complete attention.

Legend credits Thales of Miletus, an ancient sage, with prodigies of invention. He is an engineer, the prototype absentminded professor, and the first to offer systematic rational explanations for natural
phenomena. But displacing the gods is a risky business. His position is undermined when Thalia, a new seer, comes to town. Thales must confront a new wave of superstition--even as his indispensable servant Elia threatens to run off with Xeppo, a disillusioned disciple. Xeppo will prove to be a son Thales never knew he had, and Thalia to be Thales' long-ago ex-wife. Are love and sex mere forms of the madness that Thales' philosophizing attempts to supersede? Do they conquer all? And can anyone dispense with the gods altogether?

After a first date, Rex (art critic for a free newspaper) and LuAndy (would-be poet) stumble into his apartment to discover, perched on the coffee table, the Head of John the Baptist (a speaking role). Rex thinks this discovery could make his career. LuAndy is entranced. Her former friend Harriet, an ex-nun and current performance artist semi-magically arrives to pursue her own interest in religious icons. The encounter eventually touches all of life’s major bases: god, sex, death, art, stand-up comedy, and major household appliances.

The depths of the Cold War, a shabby rented room in a nameless city: Two spies surveilling a beautiful assassin learn that one of their agents is missing. Has he defected? Because she seduced him? Who is seducing whom?

P.I. Dick is a private eye specializing in metaphysical problems. The femme fatale Lola VaVoom, claiming to be distraught because God is dead, hires him to find the killer. But it’s a set-up.

To take revenge on a girlfriend who dumped him Joel makes her a character in a stupid screenplay—but it’s not stupid enough.

There's a right way and a wrong way to do everything—even, or especially, in a men's room.

Late 19th century Paris: Suzanne wants a portrait that will attract a noble lover. Pierre, a would-be avant garde artist, wants to create a scandal.

Roscoe, imprisoned in an unnamed dictatorship, is trying to convince an interrogator that he is Scorpion, an enemy agent prepared to turn traitor and sell military secrets. He faces a problem when Guilbert enters, claiming also to be Scorpion.

Louis and Clark find that an annoying “team building” treasure hunt organized by their employer’s Human Resources department becomes steadily more sinister.