Hannah Manikowski

M and V meet on M's blog about plant care. For them, the internet is a place: the only place where they can coexist. Their roots intertwine before their fingertips brush. How do you love a person whose outline you cannot trace? And how do you survive loving anyone at all?

After years abandoned in isolation, a young refugee woman from a defunct lunar colony is brought to Earth, where she's housed in the jellyfish room of the Georgia Aquarium. Her story stuns the world, and she's touted as a flicker of hope for the previously disgraced space program. The scientist assigned to her case sees beyond her story - but, as their bond strengthens and lines between the personal and the professional fade away, all involved will be forced to make impossible decisions between integrity, career advancement, human progress, and love.

The Sunrise from the Moon is an exploration of lesbian loneliness. (Know that when I say that, I mean that lesbian loneliness is baked into the fabric of the world, and it would pervade even if every character in the play were heterosexual.) Sunrise interrogates where and why we situate our love and the profound suffering inherent in living in a world that was not made to accommodate your fullest self.

Tara, a young, lonely woman, drops out of college unbeknownst to her mother and becomes a surrogate for Gabriel and Elliott, a well-established gay couple. Suddenly, Tara finds herself carrying not only their future child, but a terrible secret as well. Compensation is a dialogue about the complex systems that coerce women into outsourcing their bodies for income, the ethical implications of men purchasing access to those bodies, and the profound yearning for family that drives these people to entangle themselves in these systems in the first place.

Baylee is picking up the pieces after learning her most recent Tinder hookup, a local hotshot news anchor named Johnny, used her to cheat on his girlfriend. She takes comfort in the support of her best friend, Vince - until she learns that Vince is working the Regional Emmy Awards at which Johnny is being honored. Now, her only sounding board is an even-more-recent Tinder match, Nat (because why not open her profile up to 'view men and women,' right?!). But Nat plays a more involved role in this narrative than Baylee realizes.

Teresa is an idyllic upper middle-class housewife, and she lives an idyllic upper middle-class life – except that her six-year-old daughter, Maddie, won’t speak: not to her mother, not to her schoolteacher, and not to her therapists (multiple – with an ‘s’!). Teresa’s only window into Maddie’s mind is the orders she places on Amazon.com. So, when new Amazon delivery girl, Nat, communicates with Maddie more effectively than Teresa ever has, Teresa is immediately defensive… but Nat might be just what Teresa needs to finally confront a deep and secret well of familial pain. A snappy comedy with heart, “earth’s most customer-centric company” argues that women, when given the chance to truly know each other, find we are more connected than our world encourages us to realize.

Art school dropout, Heather, works at a pizzeria, where she must spend every agonizing cigarette break staring down the undeniably hideous mural she painted on the side of the adjacent building. Much to the chagrin of her co-worker and best friend, Stephanie, Heather has just moved in with her boyfriend, Michael - which is, of course, a whole thing, because maybe Steph knows what she's talking about, and maybe it's time Heather figured out what she really wants.

A lesbian coming-of-age story involving goldfish, dead-end-jobs, and the simultaneous beauty and heartache present in liminality.

the evansville tj-maxx is scheduled for demolition at 6 am sharp on the morning of august 14th, 2018. interested parties who have been failed by family, friends, romantic partners, bosses, pets, and society at large are hereby cordially invited to meet in the tj-maxx's gutted halls the evening prior to demolition in order to spend a single night living the lives we could have lived, had we been born richer or kinder or more talented. but probably just richer.

the tj-maxx dying dreams conglomerate believes in quality of life over quantity of life. don't you owe yourself one good night as the person you wish you'd always been?

Following her deadbeat father's passing, fourteen-year-old Cassidy unwittingly connects with her deadbeat guardian angel - who just so happens to be working the night shift at the local diner.

Think, like, It's a Wonderful Life - except not really that at all.

Miranda has a cat named Booger, an ex named Miles, and an attitude problem.

She also has a date with a cute witchy girl named Taylor, who might just hold her fate in those tarot cards she pulled. Or maybe not.

Either way, Miles needs to get the fuck out of her apartment.