Toni is a detective with the Lost Objects Department in Heaven. One day she gets a call from Upper Management--her widow, Brielle, has misplaced a precious necklace Toni gave her. Toni and her rookie partner, the late cooking blogger Morgana Morganstern, go to Earth to help, and they meet Brie's new girlfriend, Ari. Toni thinks--based on no evidence at all--that Ari may have taken the necklace. Is Toni off track? Morgana thinks so, and wants to surrender the case to the Grief Department. Will Toni help Brie find the necklace? And will Toni find the thing she herself has lost--and be able to let it go?

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Looking for help with her homework, teen Alice gets more than she bargained for in an online teatime writing group: revamped characters serving more than just tea; a dog from the wrong story; Chekhov's gun; and plenty of vitriol. A parody of Lewis Carroll's classic scene (for today's grownups!).

Can't Adapt fell off a barn. Someone whom Can't thinks looks like Hillary Rodham Clinton is in the hallway at the hospital. She says her name is Mrs. Smith, but Can't doesn't believe her. Mrs. Smith might take a drive through Osgood, Idaho, later, and Can't might go home. But before then, can Mrs. Smith help Can't remember something important?

Jord wakes up to find a baboon in the living room. Jord calls Reg, a neighbor, over to help. Where did the baboon come from? Was he attracted by Jord's ostentatious political advertising? And who is the baboon, really? Jord's uncle believed in reincarnation...

Two cats (any gender, any age) decide what to do when their heartbroken human (not present) won't feed them. It's a "microplay" and a personal response to COVID-19 and theatre closures. For an audience of any age.

A wayward sock finds itself in a wasteland of dust and lint. A pair of undies shows up and wants to pick fibers from the sock to reinforce themselves. Can the sock escape in one piece?

Leah is asleep on a bench. Nordstrom waits for a bus. Anette shows up. Leah's talking bird in the bushes pesters Anette and drives her away. Can Nordstrom get Leah to go into the bushes and fetch her bird before somebody gets hurt? Or does Leah have her own reasons not to?

Stephanie lives with her boyfriend, Brandon, and her cat, Loki. Her landlady, Mildred, lives upstairs. When Mildred gives Stephanie a potion that will grant her any one wish, Stephanie throws it in the toilet. But she leaves it floating, and Loki drinks out of the toilet. Consequentially, his one wish is granted: he becomes human. Mildred passes him off as her nephew, and he spends the day with Stephanie and the ornery Brandon. Mildred has sinister plans for Stephanie and Brandon, though, and if Loki can't thwart her by midnight, she'll end up with their lives.

Richard sees a vision of Moby Dick and is determined to hunt the whale made famous by Herman Melville. Richard's wife, Storm, is suspicious of what he is doing, but he won't tell her for fear she'll stop him. Richard recruits their neighbor, Reilly, to help him capture the whale in their apartment complex. In addition to all these things, they have to deal with a sinister-yet-comedic pest exterminator who wants to get into their foundation. Will Richard catch Moby Dick? Who is Moby Dick, really? And why is Richard hunting him?

Tim's daughter, Patricia, won't come out of the bathroom. He wonders what's wrong, and he starts to panic, to her embarrassment. When he finally gets her to open the door, will she tell him what's bothering her?

When Tom and Chad go to their favorite restaurant, Chad would like to watch a movie to feel better, but Polly, the new server, won't change the channel away from the news footage of the Space Shuttle Columbia. While Tom and Chad respect and want to honor the astronauts, Tom worries Chad's experience in the restaurant today could tarnish his memory of them. Can Tom get Polly to change the channel?

In a hotel room, Trent wakes Ellie and announces that his pinkie toe has got to go. Now. Can Ellie get him to keep it?

10 minutes, 2 characters.

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