Isla, Nick, and 14-year-old Violet are a makeshift family living in a subterranean home in a planet that is no longer inhabitable. Their pursuits are normal enough: Nick scavenges the outside world, Isla feeds her thoughts into an artificial consciousness, while Violet gets visitors in the form of ghosts from multiple eras. (Isla and Nick do too, but they're slightly better at compartamentalizing and lying to themselves.)

When the world has run down and no future lies ahead, you take what you can get, and the ghosts do at least make for pleasant company. That is, if they are ghosts at all.

Fresh from five years...away...over a little bit of ATM robbery, Mason Wright has reasonable goals (or so he believes): make a mint playing poker, and get his estranged wife Maya back. But is he as good a card player as he thinks? Was Maya trying to tell him something by never visiting or writing? Will his charm run out before his old friends remember the way things usually go with Mason?

There will be damages from Mason's many avoidable mistakes; his daughter, Lex, already has her scars. But whether Mason's going down this time all depends on when he gets out of town.

Over the course of a bizarre and hotly contested election, Democratic operative Mark Walker has his hands full keeping The Candidate, a Connecticut senator with the force of the party but the indifference of the people, on target, as her very real despair over the very nature of what Democracy requires, as well as the tiny matter of money missing from her charity, begins to build.

The Republican candidate may do nothing but spout and stomp, but under the thoroughly ethically unbound former governor Dominic Fortunato, he does, somehow, have a chance, and his fourth press secretary, journeywoman Sarah Jane Tyler, he might even have the appearance of a cohesive message. But will Sarah Jane, or what goodness there is in her, survive the unwanted attentions of Dominic, and a campaign designed to win at any cost?

Tuesday, a troubled poet, and Sky Baker, a recovering alcoholic, are brother and sister survivors of the brutal commune known as The Meadow, forced together again after Tuesday nearly overdoses on Ambien after 13 nights without sleep; ultimately, Sky cannot save Tuesday from the darkness of their past, but will Tuesday bring Sky back to The Meadow, and out of his own mind?

Two college friends and Red Sox fans, three years removed from school and golden boys no more, find (and often lose) genuine love, employment, artistic inspiration, exceedingly cheap whiskey, Internet fame, and something close to enough to maturity, over the backdrop of the 2007 championship season.

A divorced hedge fund manager, facing the emptiness of his own life and the marriage of his rock star best friend to the only woman he almost loved, will make deception an art as he tears their love, and their lives, apart. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Othello, and written in modern blank verse.

At 35, Magda might not quite be where she hoped she’d be, with her days are spent in a mind-numbing, Carpal Tunnel-inducing temp job and her nights, sorta seeing an idiot drummer eleven years her junior. But when her apartment is invaded by a mysterious, constant, piercing beeping, something all the 311 calls in the world won’t get rid of, the comfort of her ramshackle life, and her sanity, is shaken.

Dan “Cannon” Samuels is ranked but un-reputed heavyweight, with a second-rate manager and a collapsing marriage, but a surprise shot at the title, and a new, unorthodox trainer will give him the chance to be the fighter he was always meant to be. But in winning the title, will Cannon lose control of everything else?

Loosely inspired by the rise and fall of James "Buster"Douglas, Puncher's Chance depicts what it takes to succeed, and the many ways we can come short.