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Sixteen year old Rachel Stein is having a bad year. Her father hasn't
changed out of his pajamas since 9/11. Her mother has begun a close, personal
relationship with Jesus. Her new neightbor, a sixteen-year-old Elvis impersonator,
has fallen for her hard. And the Apocolypse is coming Wednesday. Her only
hope is that Stephen Hawking will save them all. Read
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The Schwartz family is on its last legs. Their
father's dead and their Catskills home is up for sale. Norma's husband
hasn't spoken to her since she turned their 15 year old son in for smoking
pot. After five miscarriages it appears Herb's wife won't provide him
with an heir. Simon has one foot on the moon. Gene's girlfriend is about
to have an abortion. And nobody seems very clear about what it is to be
a family anyway. Read more
In Spring of 2003, in an opulent living room in
Westchester, New York, old highschool friends excitedly gather to await
the dawn of the next Gulf War. As they enjoy debating the pros and cons
of duct tape and French wine, the war looms, and their old friend, a veteran
of the first Gulf War, returns home with a darker truth of what war might
bring. Read more
Dotty's life in Sterno with her husband Hamel is
absolutely perfect! It's a fairy tale, it really is. True, in their seven
years of marriage Hamel has forbidden her to leave their tiny apartment
or speak to anyone, but Dotty is so very happy to spend her days watching
video re-enactments of the day they first met.
When a phone call from a mysterious woman threatens to tear her world
asunder, Dotty must venture out into the vast city of Sterno, and try
to discover what it is to be a "real" woman. Read
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Maude, a lonely, surly, storefront psychic has
accepted that love is not in the cards for her. She can see the future
and knows this to be true. But when Jeremy, a despondent love-hungry accountant
threatens to kill himself if she sees no love for him, she must wrestle
with fate, and in changing his destiny, change her own. Read
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