My Mirror Staring Back at Me Cast List: Hazel, a black-haired girl in a little black dress and heels Lezah, her reflection At Rise: Hazel is alone in the bathroom at a nightclub leaning over a sink. Lezah is standing at the sink with arms crossed starring down at Hazel's bent form Lezah: You didn't do it Hazel: I know (mumbled) Lezah: This was the …
Nowhere Cast List: Zephyra (Zeh-fear-uh), played by Cora Fraim Puritan, played by Heather Chang Mehite(Muh-heat-ee), off screen cat At Rise: 1690s, Zephyra, a 20-year-old healer enters the room excitedly. Mehite, her familiar, sits in the corner Zephyra: Oh, Mehite I’ve found it. Mehite stares Zephyra: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It took me ages and cost me our whole supply of Ginseng …
Christina Grimmie stood next to me in a Waffle House restroom as I ambled behind a woman leaving a stall into the vacant space when the volume of her hair caught my attention & I thought back to the YouTube video of her bent over a porcelain tub washing her hair to show everyone how she got so much volume at the top of …
Reflections In The Water Cast List: Aristia, a woman sitting at a desk Basil, her superior At Rise: It is the middle of Spring on a cool April morning Aristia is doing paperwork. Basil enters the room abruptly, walks to Aristia’s desk drops a thick stack of papers on the table with a thump, and turns to walk back out of the room Aristia: Her …
Let’s make a movie called Out of Time. Ran meets The Mountain Between Us meets Back to the Future. The typical love story troupe of forced proximity, in which enemies become forced allies, become friends upholding mutual respect, become lovers. A Samurai from feudal Japan meets a modern law enforcement ranger. Trapped together, combining their knowledge. This can’t be simply the brains and the …
“Mmph” I look across the white tables and chairs separating us to Phil who sits in one of the chairs leaning over a puzzle on a table. “Unh” he grunts again swatting at his head, and after a few blinks I see it. They dart up and around the lights before diving down once more. Their little wings fluttered. No bigger than my hand. …
Was it gonna rain? Oddly enough that was the thought looming in her mind. The blue skies that were above moments ago were now gone. Replaced with a bleak gray overcast. Sad, congested clouds looming overhead. She’d forgotten to check the weather report before she ran out that morning. It was something her husband had often nagged her for. She never planned ahead. “Que …
The wind chimes suspended above the corner of the patio reminds me of the obnoxious chimes of bells as the churchgoers descend the stairs from the holy temple above. Gets me thinking about the interludes and soft chimes melding a symphony into a cohesive piece. Filling the silences that stretch when the singer catches a breath. The soft chime summoning your attention away from …
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are” -Mason Cooley Darkness Rising by Kelley Armstrong – 9 years I sit on the porch, the splintered and aged wood beneath me, poking me through the thin polyester material of my plaid capri’s. My small hand comes up before me to turn the page and I find myself focusing …
She lived in one of those small towns, in the middle of America, with a name familiar to no one more than 100 miles away. In an old warehouse off Route 7, her secrets writhe beneath the loose floorboard on the second floor, and on the third Friday of every month, she lets them free.
