An anxious and ungainly teenage boy struggles against bullies, puberty, and his fears of mortality when his parents send him to a summer water polo camp.
While a plague devastates the peasantry, a mad prince hosts a masquerade ball for the noble class in his castle. A long-lost twin, hidden among the lower class, enters the castle and is received into a decadent world of orgies, opium, power schemes, revenge, and decapitations.
Teddy, the daughter of a private prison mogul, becomes obsessed with a charismatic inmate, Fangs. Consumed with desire for the self-proclaimed ‘psychopath,’ Teddy risks everything as her life spirals spectacularly out of control.
Two long-distance lovers search for a way forward (or backward) when the bedrock of their twenty-year relationship cracks. A midwestern rumination on loving across space and time.
Recovering from a broken leg, a romance-obsessed loner finds herself swept up in a passionate long-distance love affair. Richard is perfect in every way, except that he may be a scammer.
In the summer of 2011 twenty Peace Corps Volunteers returned to Sierra Leone, West Africa. For most of them, it was the first time returning to the country since they had served in the 1960’s and 1970’s. They came to reconnect with their friends in Sierra Leone. It was an auspicious time for...