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The Forresters
An unnamed eighth grader has been seaching for a "tall, geeky guy" for the past two years. The eighth grader gets a lead and heads out to Flemington, New Jersey. But who is the "tall, geeky guy" and why is he being sought?
Category:Short StoriesReads:355Uploaded:11 / 23 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionGinger and Pickles and the Dog License
Ginger and Pickles and the Dog License is adapted from Beatrix Potter's 1909 short story titled The Tale of Ginger and Pickles. Seventeen eccentric characters (one non-speaking) briskly and charmingly pass through their village shop within 14 pages.
Category:Screenplays & PlaysReads:775Uploaded:12 / 23 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionOff the Pipes
Off the Pipes is about Frank Curts, a quarterback in the Industrial Football League (IFL). Curts is an accomplished quarterback but has never won the league championship. The closest he got was early in his career but a last second field goal bounced off the goal posts - the pipes, as they are called - and was missed because the kicker was high from smoking crack. Curts will remember this forever. Many years later, Curts' career is ending when he's injured during a pre-season game. The team assumes he will retire and it immediately signs a young player to replace him. Curts announces he intends to rehabilitate his injury and rejoin the team during the season. However, the new quarterback rallies the team with a style of football that taps into the strengths and skills of every player. It is no longer Frank Curts and 25 other teammates. Unexpectedly, the new quarterback leads the team into the championship game. Curts watches the season from the sidelines. Privately, he tells friends he could still win any game at any time. During the championship, with the team losing, the new quarterback is hurt. Curts has one last chance to win the championship which has eluded him. He puts the team in a position to win and in comes the same field goal kicker who missed years earlier. Despite Curts' protests and claims of contiuned drug use, the kicker swears he gave up crack long ago. But this is Curts' last chance to win a championship and he does not want lose again. Does he think the kicker is clean enough to win the game? Will Frank Curts actually believe his teammate is Off the Pipes?
Category:Screenplays & PlaysReads:443Uploaded:12 / 01 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionMayonnaise in My Cake
“The Clarksons, like most families, were a universe unto themselves. Unfathomable, but comically hostile, planets dominated the landscape.” Those are the thoughts of The Man - an academically trained, professionally experienced chef who owns a newly opened restaurant but is invisible around his fiancee's family. Until he creates a memorable impression when he insists on not putting any mayonnaise in his cake.
Category:Short StoriesReads:1,636Uploaded:09 / 29 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionGrandfather's Last Race
In October 1929, Benjamin O’Brien competed in the Gastonbury Invitational Automobile Race. It was 25-miles long and he was leading towards the end. On the last lap, he crashed into the wall. Four other drivers slammed into him. One car flipped over the wall and rolled into Lake Gastonbury. The comatose O’Brien was rushed to the hospital for tests and treatment but his condition did not improve. October’s chill dragged into December’s snow. On Christmas Eve, as his family left his hospital room, they wondered if they had seen Grandfather’s Last Race.
Category:NovelsReads:675Uploaded:09 / 21 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionCelebrating Johnny Parks
For fifty years, Johnny Parks broadcast sporting events ranging from baseball and football to horse races and tennis. CELEBRATING JOHNNY PARKS is an occasion to remember Parks’ body of work as a sportscaster. His portfolio, summarized from two sporting events, reveals the depths of his abilities to tell stories which effect listeners.
Category:Screenplays & PlaysReads:819Uploaded:09 / 16 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionSplendor in Midland - Episode One
Georgie Amberson Minafer is viewed with contempt by the residents of Midland. Since his antics as a spoiled youth, they have longed to see him get knocked down a notch or two. But no one could have imagined the pounding he would go through. Inspired by Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Magnificent Ambersons," SPLENDOR IN MIDLAND tells the story of Georgie and his families, the Ambersons and Minafers, as well as the Morgans, as they all face financial and personal upheavals.
Category:Screenplays & PlaysReads:1,171Uploaded:09 / 04 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionThe Past is Present
THE PAST IS PRESENT is a celebration of the 75th anniversay of the Industrial Football League (IFL) of Roberts County. It is also the last work of legendary sports announcer, Johnny Parks.
Category:Short StoriesReads:626Uploaded:08 / 16 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionThe Table
A simple table with settings for six awaits its guests. But who are the guests and will they come? More importantly, can they come?
Category:Screenplays & PlaysReads:1,143Uploaded:08 / 12 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionIt Suits Her
The future of a young woman, trapped inside a job she despises but needs, and the comeback of an aging movie star, bankrupt after years of drinking, collide in a tailoring shop.
Category:Screenplays & PlaysReads:2,592Uploaded:08 / 04 / 2009ShareAdd to collection
