I am now making my plays available in collections on the Downloads page for anyone who wishes to use them, offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. I'll be adding the collections as I create them. You can also still download individual plays from the list below.
To see how the license works, see this article on Nina Paley's Sita Sings The Blues, which is offered under same license, or go directly to her website.
In The Name Of - In a time when the USA-PATRIOT Act is standard practice, a young man hits upon the possibility of personal freedom -- and the government hits back, hard.
A Question of Color - In 1907, a white man and a black woman defy North Carolina's ban on interracial marriages and get married. The play is based on the memoir of the same name by Sara Beattie.
The Theatre Cooperative, Somerville MA (Nov. 22 - Dec. 12, 2001)
Dancing at the Revolution - Emma Goldman, exiled in France, struggles to write her autobiography and explain herself to a young French secretary unimpressed by someone once known as the "most dangerous woman in America."
Ain't Ethiopia - After whites lynch his wife, an African-American man goes to Spain in 1937 to fight Franco only to find that he must face down the home-town fascists who murdered her if his life, and his wife's death, is to mean anything.
Seven Ladies Macbeth - What happened before and after Lady Macbeth became Lady Macbeth? (Inspired by Howard Barker's Seven Lears.)
On The Nature Of The Dark Matter That Dominates The Present Mean Mass Density Of The Universe - Charges of "liberal bias" against a white law professor with black ancestors also becomes infected with slurs about racial identity.
Pictures At An Exhibition - A photographer accused of abuse for taking nude photos of her son does jail-time rather than admit any wrong-doing. She meets a cell-mate serving time for abetting the death of her own daughter.
When The Phones Came To Liberty Creek - In 1999, Liberty Creek, a rural "unincorporated territory," still does not have phone service. But when service finally arrives, traditions and fights start and end with a simple dial tone.
Centastage, Boston MA May 2-23, 1999
Esquina - A police officer is charged with murdering 17-year old Jose Aral, and the Aral family is never the same.
Hardball - In 1922, semi-pro Jewish pitching phenom Henry Kaner gets an offer from the St. Louis Browns -- if he'll play on Shabbos. What to do with this version of the American dream?
Bright Gold Promise - A story of betrayal prompted by a thirst for real estate.
NEA High - A high school senior, awarded an art grant by her city council, creates a painting that criticizes the policy on sex education. Art, politics, and freedom clash when her painting is pulled from the exhibition.
The Happy City - Based on The Plague by Albert Camus, a river-port shipping city in the mid-West in depths-of-the- Depression 1932 is shut down because of bubonic plague -- the first of many afflictions suffered by the people.
The Measure of All Things - The French Revolution sent out two men to measure the world to establish the meter, and they ended up measuring more than their science would admit.
Shea Man - An anthropologist plants the bones of the "missing link" on his family's farm to generate hype and cash. But when the "evidence" falls into the hands of a P.T. Barnum-style promoter who sees gold in gullibility, all goes awry.
Scenes from Homeward Bound
Samaritan (5 males, 1 female) -- Based on two biblical stories -- the parable of the Samaritan [Luke, chapter 10, verses 25-37] and the meeting between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well [John, chapter 4, verses 4-42] -- the play examines answers to the main question of the parable: "And who is my neighbor?"
Homeward Bound (3 males, 3 females) -- At the intersection of domestic violence and immigration, a young undocumented Mexican woman is caught in an abusive marriage with an American citizen and must find a way to either escape or die.
Mine Eyes - The narrator tells an interviewer about his PR work for the American militia. He now struggles to re-join a world he's done much to damage.
Translation - An American appraiser of art photography must trust a linguist-for-hire to translate a journal which most certainly contains (un)wanted revelations from another woman whom the appraiser met on a business trip in Germany.
David Eiduks and Scott Glascock (seated) in The Famine Church (Metropolitan Playhouse). Photo by Anne-Sophie Heist.
Sin Eater - This is a revision of the second act of Pictures at an Exhibition (see description above).
The Most Dangerous Woman in America - A one actor piece based on the life of the anarchist Emma Goldman.
The First Day of the Seventh Month - A perfectly healthy man, deciding that he has only six months to live, sets out to live as if that were true. Then the sun rises on the first day of the seventh month.
When The Phones Came To Liberty Creek - In 1999, Liberty Creek, a rural "unincorporated territory," still does not have phone service. But when service finally arrives, traditions and fights start and end with a simple dial tone.
A Round of Slaughter - An exiled playwright comes home when the government turns outwardly democratic. She accepts a commission for a play to honor the changes, but a former slaughterhouse cannot stop being a slaughterhouse overnight.
2003 New York City Fringe Festival
Poly X - Using the Greek story of Polyxena, the last sacrifice made in the Trojan War (unlike Iphegenia, the first sacrifice, Polyxena was not saved), Poly X is a play about the anger, mayhem, and sport of war.
The Business - Christian business ethics are now the corporate rage in the Avantguard Investments mutual fund company -- until Peter Waldo begins to question whether Jesus would ever have been a CEO.
To...Or Not... -- On the annual January combat between pro-lifers and pro-choicers, seventy-year-old Alma Gordon and mother Melinda Marsh have a few things to say to each other as they cool their heels in a police van.
Let Down The Rains ) -- A well-known radio therapist tells such a story to the cabbie taking her to catch a train to Vermont that the cabbie, after he drops her off, doesn't think New York-to-Vermont is that far out of his way to pick up his fare.
Another Seascape - Using Edward Albee's Seascape as a starting point, two comfortable, but whiny, bourgeoisie are confronted by two existentialist lizards about why they think they have it so bad.
Still Small Voice (1 female, 4 males) -- A writer, Robert Walser, comes to the end of his latest literary production.
Click (long version) - Using the premise of my short play Click, this version explores the day after.
Miscellaneous pieces running from 5 to 30 minutes.
The Alamo in the East Village Theater Festival, August 3-23, 2009
The Adulterous Woman (1 male, 1 female) -- Staring out across the desert, in a country not her own, Janine finds a perfection that she had not anticipated and does not yet know if it will accept her. (Inspired by the story by Albert Camus.) -- 15 pages
An Affair of State (1 female) -- The Senator from the great state of [fill in the blank] has something to say to the Ethics Committee. -- 2 page
The Alamo (1 older female, 1 male) -- A mouthy panhandler and a sophomore at a prestigious university have very different philosophies about life. -- 12 pages
The Bête Goes Noire (1 female, 2 males) -- Charon the Boatman will show up in the strangest places these days. -- 10 pages
Bintl Briv (1 male, 1 female) -- Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Forward, meets Lola Ridge in 1906 -- and their relationship is very much like the letters to the editor, the "bintl briv," of complaints, temptations, and possibilities. -- 24 pages
Biog (1 female, 1 male) -- Capella Secrest, famed author of biographies, meets her match in the secrets business in her assistant, Nigel Hamilton -- and she's not above using a little fire-power to help win the struggle. -- 8 pages
The Body Electric (2 males) -- During the Civil War, Walt Whitman volunteered his time as a nurse. Always close to those he helped, he finds his spirit drawn to Henry Smith, who refuses to let the doctors take his leg. -- 6 pages
Courier Mercury in the 8-Minute Madness Festival, February 14-March 23, 2009
Booger (1 male) -- Paul, a former Catholic altar boy, recalls a moment when his true religious faith was revealed to him that was as plain as the nose on his face. -- 4 pages
Bum A Shot (1 male, 1 female) -- Homeless, Steel Eye panhandles each day and tries to give her potential customers something back for their money. But when Roland Bitters won't give her $10 for taking a picture of her face, she reminds him that it is copyrighted and forces him to look at her as a person. -- 11 pages
Burning Issues (1 male, 1 female) -- Love is politics by another name when it comes to burning sacred books. -- 9 pages
Catalog (2 males or 1 male/1 female) -- When everything can be bought from home or on-line, even death will have its own catalog. A story of how far capitalism will go to get market share. -- 4 pages
Doug West (l.) and Geoffrey Barnes in Ishmael and Ahab Mon Amour (Metropolitan Playhouse). Photo by Steve Lembark.
The City of Mosques (2 males, 1 female - all Nigerian) -- The knock upon the front door, the knife-edged news given by an Armed Services officer in sharp-creased clothing -- and then the next day, and the day after that. The death of a young man in Fallujah, Iraq, the "city of mosques." -- 13 pages
Click (2 males) -- When Marlin reveals to Pinto what he did in the park that night, it changes the whole nature of the moral universe they inhabit. -- 10 pages
Combover (2 males) -- Dual McKenzie confesses to his barber, Clay Harrison, that he is a little worried about what his wife will think about the "thinning thatch" on his head, especially since she seems to be pursuing life with a gusto that unnerves him. -- 10 pages
Courier Mercury (1 male or 1 female) -- Jukie di Gamba is a bicycle courier extraordinaire, who sees his journey through the city streets as the modern-day version of Mercury delivering messages for the gods. -- 3 pages
Alleyway Theatre, Buffalo NY (Sept. 12-Oct. 6, 2002)
DOT ORG (2 males or 2 females) -- A hapless computer user envisions God as a sophisticated (though not error-free) software and the rest of us as hapless lines of code in various stages of debugging. -- 3 pages
Downsize (2 males, 2 females) -- When Hannah inadvertently pours water on the boss and melts him away, she and her three co-workers are momentarily released into their own freedom: they can do whatever they want. This freedom both terrifies and excites them, and the choices they make demonstrate the state of our own ambivalence about liberty and security. -- 13 pages
Ear Buds (any combination) -- When we love our devices, and they love us back. -- 10 pages
Equal. Separate. (1 white female, 1 black female) -- Pat, white, and Chris, black, long-time friends and survivors of being "women in the building trades," lose their friendship when, over a shot and a beer, Chris finds out that Pat wouldn't let her daughter date Chris' son. -- 13 pages
Everything's Jake (2 females) -- When Jane reveals to Jacqui her strong love for Jacqui, she finds that Jacqui is willing to accept it -- but there is the small matter of someone named Jack that Jacqui needs to talk about. -- 10 pages
Milissa Pacelli as Emma Goldman in Thunder and Lightning's production of Dancing at the Revolution (September 2008)
The Famine Church (2 males, 1 female) -- God and Mammon clash in this tale of gentrification on the Lower East Side of New York City. -- 17 pages
Fare Thee Well (6 females) -- Six women gather for a very special farewell party to one of their own in this celebration about facing and surviving breast cancer. -- 12 pages
Frankie Is Dead (1 female, 1 male, 1 male or female) -- Gina has to suffer the bullying of Frankie because the adult world will not give her the protection she needs. She has only has one avenue left to end the torment: to wish for his unequivocal death. -- 8 pages
George Bailey Redivivus (2 males) -- Life goes on for George Bailey after the last reel of It's A Wonderful Life - and what happens? George finds out, "Not much," and Clarence once again has to appear to give him a hand, though with a very different offer this time around. -- 3 pages
Glory Train (2 males, 2 females) -- The nature and purpose of life can become very immediate as four travelers find out when a disturbed young woman threatens them all with a vial of what she says is anthrax. -- 8 pages
Good Tidings (1 male, 1 female) -- When Roger, in response to a request for a gratuity at Christmastime from the servants, snootily responds with high-handed arrogance, they show him that the servants oftentimes know more about the masters than the masters know about the servants. -- 4 pages
The Greed Gene (2 males, 1 female - though the doctor can be played by a female) -- Genetic counseling may not be a blessing, as Norman and Lauren Drago learn from Dr. Targus, their "Genie of Genes," that their new child will possess the "greed gene." -- 10 pages
American Globe Theatre, New York City - April 10 - 13, 2003
Hammer (2 females) -- Delia, a construction worker, smacked the eleven-year old son of her boyfriend when he told her that he didn't want to learn anything about carpentry from a "girl." She is confused by her actions because, on the one hand, she wants to nip these beginning buds of sexism but, on the other hand, is troubled by her swift choice of physical violence to do it. -- 10 pages
Hannah And The Maccabees (2 females) -- A stroke has crippled Hannah, twisting her body in a useless coil and reducing her to four words she can use to communicate -- "yes," "no," "ohjesus," and "whoa." Carol, her social worker, talks with Hannah when it is clear Hannah has tried to kill herself by slashing her wrist on a broken piece of glass. Carol must understand a whole life as Hannah uses a four-part alphabet to spell it out. -- 10 pages. [NOTE: This play has also been done with a male as the social worker and appropriate changes made in the script.]
Hold On (1 male, 1 female) -- Cappy and Ronnie have come to the end of their seven-year relationship. Suddenly, a car careens out of control and teeters on the edge of the bridge -- only they can keep it from plunging. They keep a lot more than the car from sliding into the river as they talk.-- 10 pages
How Do You Like Your Blueeyed Boy... (1 male, 1 female) -- Assisted suicide, death with dignity - Lilah Lawton finds no solace in any of these terms when she finds out that Dr. Jeremiah Kissov, an active proponent of "dignicides," has helped her mother end her life. She is determined to get answers, no matter what it takes. -- 12 pages
If Cleanliness (1 male, 3 females) -- It is 1894, and young Brigid Yeats, working as a stitcher in a workshop and a maid in the rectory, has a revelation about water, Emma Goldman, and our blessed St. Brigid. -- 18 pages
Doug West (kneeling) and David Eiduks in Ishmael and Ahab Mon Amour (Metropolitan Playhouse). Photo by Steve Lembark.
In The Fort (1 male child, 1 female) -- At school someone calls Pablo's father a "wetback," but Pablo mis-hears it as "wetvac," which confuses him: his father a vacuum cleaner? Luz, his mom, soothes him but knows that the world is closing in. -- 8 pages
Ishmael and Ahab Mon Amour (3 males) -- Based on the last chapter and epilogue of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, the Whale sets the most dangerous challenge for Ahab: to seek out the forgiveness of Ishmael, the only survivor of the drowned Pequod -- 12 pages
Isn't A Date in Eight A Great Idea, Or What? (1 male, 1 female) -- "Speed dating" is supposed to make the manuevers easier, but even in eight minutes expectations can be confounded in many interesting ways. -- 11 pages
J. De La Vega (1 male or 1 female) -- Violence in the barrios of New York is not uncommon, and with great sadness but pain-filled love, street artist J. De La Vega does not let these deaths disappear as street-level memorials to the fallen victims of poverty, racism, and simple bad luck bloom on walls, sidewalks, and buildings. -- 5 pages
Leaf Meal (1 male, 1 female) -- An experiment to modify humans to make them able to photosynthesize sunlight makes for a very interesting love story. -- 9 pages
Llorona (1 male, 1 female) -- A young woman is abandoned by the father of their child when he goes to marry someone else, and she exacts her revenge for his betrayal. -- 6 pages
Location: Highway. Time: Near Dusk (1 female, 2 males or 2 females or 1 female and one male) -- Adam is picked up for causing a disturbance by the side of the highway when she sees the seventh deer hit and left to die. -- 13 pages
Playwrights Forum, August 16 - Sept. 1, 2001
Love Letters (1 male, 1 female) -- When Dale finds, in the attic, a bundle of love letters addressed to her but unsent by her husband Roger, her feelings for him are revived. Roger, however, knows that the name "Dale" is attached to more than one person in the world, and not necessarily to someone the same gender as his wife. -- 3 pages
Making Light: The Found Letters of Hester Prynne (5 women) -- A spoken word/recitation piece based on my short story Hester. -- 15 pages
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (2 females, 4 males, but some roles interchangable) -- An adaptation of the short story by Mark Twain. -- 25 pages
Moment (2 males, 1 female, 5 males or females) -- When Roger finds himself in the situation of a bank robbery, and one of the robbers fires a gun at him, multiple life-times play out in the time and distance between the muzzle of the gun and the final destination of the bullet. -- 3 pages
Mucho Macho (2 males) -- Testosterone poisoning is probably one of the greatest environmental hazards the world faces, and on a simple day on a simple subway ride, two men cannot resist the hormonal urge to do ritual combat. -- 6 pages
Newyorkistan (3 males) -- A chance encounter with a street performer gives two New York City subway riders two very different experiences of what life is about. -- 2 pages
No Great Loss (2 females, one of which is Ethiopian) -- Emma Newmark's hair is thinning, and when Awagu Kidane, her hair-dresser, comments on how trim Emma's husband Spurgeon is looking, Emma puts "hair" and "trim" together and wants to know just what her haid-dresser knows for sure. -- 11 pages
The Alamo, with Elizabeth Bove and Ethan Sher (Metropolitan Playhouse). Photo by Evonne Fitzgerald.
Only The Dead Know Brooklyn (4 males) -- An adaptation of the 1936 short story of the same name by Thomas Wolfe. The script contains both Wolfe's phonetic idioms of a Brooklyn accent and a "regularized" version. -- 17 pages
Pamplona (8 actors, any mix) -- It's the running of the bulls in Pamplona -- and several of the bulls have existential questions about why they run. -- 13 pages
Ripped From The Headlines (5 males, 3 females) -- A meditation on the murder of Matthew Shepard. -- 10 pages
Road Rage (1 male, 1 female) -- Winston D'Cline, a driving instructor, is normally pretty cool at the wheel. Until one day, with Darlene Benz in the car for her lesson, something snaps. -- 6 pages
Rooted (1 male with light Irish accent, 1 female African-American) -- When Irishman Addison O'Riley buys a cemetery plot for himself, he does not know that it sits next to Minerva O'Riley's, the black groundskeeper for the cemetery. -- 15 pages
Playwrights' Forum, Memphis, TN (June 16-July 2, 2004)
Seconds (2 females) -- Sue, a fire fighter and EMT, comes upon a car accident and tries to save the young woman trapped in the car - though the young woman does not want to be saved. In fact, she drove herself off the road to end her own misery. Sue cannot let the woman die - but the decision is not all in her hands. -- 9 pages
A Senior Moment (5 females) -- Jewel, Darcy, Salvia, and Seeromanie, all in their sixties, wonder why Chantelle, also in her sixties, is looking good these days, as if she's not a day older than, say, fifty. -- 15 pages
Slam Quartet (2 males, 2 females) -- Slam poetry is all the sonic rage, and the final quartet of Jugger, Jukie, Pagan, and Mikey aim to bring the decibel level up a notch or two as they go for the championship of the "Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah Slam Poetry Contest." -- 11 pages
The Socialist Book of Love(1 male, 1 female) -- Like those Japanese soldiers who surrendered years after World War II was over, Yury has refused to surrender to the capitalist onslaught of his small socialist country. But the building where he lives is now going condo and the owner, Yalena, wants him out. She has arrived to move him. -- 17 pages
Sporting Goods (2 males) -- What can touching "sports-approved flesh" lead to? -- 4 pages
To...Or Not... (2 females) -- Abortion may well be the "Civil War" of our age, but 70-year old Alma Gordon is not going to let the barbarians win, which is why she engages in ritual combat and more with Melinda Marsh, young mother and pro-lifer, who is too young to remember the pre-Roe days. -- 14 pages. (There is also one-act version of this piece.)
Pictures from the Alleyway Theatre production of A Question of Color
Touching Down (2 males, one Native American: Seneca Nation) -- Thomas Touch-Fire, old and crippled and exhausted, wants to permanently exit his nursing home with the help of his son-in-law Lindbergh. But Lindbergh, remembering the Seneca legends his father-in-law has taught him, offers Thomas another road to travel. -- 14 pages
Treetop (1 male, 1 female) -- Julia Jackson Sequoia Sempervirens has been sitting for two years on a 6' by 8' platform 180 feet above the ground in a redwood to protest logging in ancient virgin forests. She is coming close to a resolution with the company that will result in the redwood being saved from logging. -- 18 pages
Undress Me (1 male/ 1 female) -- The language of love has many dialects, and Stefan and Laura explore the diphthongs of desires as Laura asks Stefan, in the middle of a crowded bar, to undress her with words. He gladly responds in the best mother tongue he knows. -- 12 pages (There is also a female same-sex version of the play.)
The Window (3 males or 3 females or some combination) -- One patient in the room had the window; the other didn't but wanted it fiercely. Finally, the first patient has the wish granted. -- 3 pages
Brain Drain in Summer Shorties, August 15-30, 2009
Brain Drain -- In this tale of gentle trickery, Crocodile is ready to eat El Mono (The Monkey) when El Mono fools him with a diversion. Though Crocodile is faster and stronger than El Mono, El Mono uses his brains to outwit brawn, showing (at least sometimes) that the mind is faster than muscle.
The Tale of Blanca Flor -- Juan is a good dancer but a lousy gambler. One day, tired of losing his shirt, he says to himself, "I would give anything to be able to win when I gamble." Just then, El Diablo shows up riding a black horse and says, "Tell me what you want."
Beware Of What You Ask For -- A story about the unintended consequences of desire, based on the South American tale The Rooster's Claw.
Macduff kills Macbeth in Macbeth's Children
Macbeth's Children: A Confrontation with William Shakespeare's Macbeth -- Macbeth's Children focuses on Fleance, the escaped son of the murdered Banquo. The play draws on the effect of violence (especially military violence) on children, what "masculinizing" does to men and women, and the cost for children in living in a world brutally directed by adults.
The Patron Saint of Geeks -- Bobby and Chad are close friends in the fifth grade. Classified as "geeks," they are pushed to the edge and contemplate ways to equalize the situation.
The Real Temple -- All of life is a journey, and Lorenzio finds this out literally when, in a waking dream, he falls through his mirror into a slightly wacky King Arthur-world that takes him on a search for beauty, strength, and wisdom. (This could also be done by high school students.)
Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane in the NH Theatre Project's production of Macbeth's Children
The Way -- Aviva Matthews is a very popular and successful girl in school. But one day she tries to break up a fight at school between a girl and her friend Ruby, and the incident affects her deeply. Studying Lao-Tzu's "The Way" in her World Religions class, she decides to use the power of meditation to end the violence.
No More Prisons -- Clique, a young woman, has been tagging every available surface with the phrase "No More Prisons" to tell the story of her sister, Johanna, imprisoned for a murder Johanna committed at the age of seventeen.
The Most Dangerous Woman in America -- Using the format of a lecture, this play presents a one-woman rendition of Emma Goldman, focusing on both the life and the ideas that motivated it. When the play opens, Goldman is approximately in her early fifties, about the time of her exile from the U.S. in 1920: stout, near-sighted, plain.
Cheryl Wolder as Emma Goldman in Dancing at the Revolution, Playwrights Forum
Ain't Ethiopia - After local whites lynch his wife as a suspected Communist, African-American Jesse Colton travels to Spain in 1937 to fight Franco. But there he finds that his real battle is with the fascists in the small Mississippi town from which he escaped and that he must return to face them down if his life, and his wife's death, is to have any meaning.
By The River - This is a screenplay version of the play A Question of Color. Two people, John Wicks (white) and Susan Morgan (black), defy an early 20th-century North Carolina prohibition against miscegenation and get married. The story follows Susan and John as they struggle to make full lives under the shadow cast by color and prejudice.
The Nun Drops Her Veil - A nun doing missionary work in Patagonia, Argentina, during the government's "Dirty War" must trust a priest with military ties to find who has been killing the peasants and union leaders who are also her friends.
The Sunlight Dialogues - Based on the novel of the same name by John Gardner, a small-city police chief must confront the meaning and purpose of her own existence when she takes into custody a self-proclaimed anarchist named Sunlight.
The three witches watch and wait in Macbeth's Children
Shea Man - An anthropologist plants the bones of the "missing link" on his family's farm to generate hype and cash. But when the "evidence" falls into the hands of a P.T. Barnum-style promoter who sees gold in gullibility, all goes awry.
Georgia's Miss Baby - A young man loses his mother, and to deal with his grief, he joins the Marines. But during his last summer before shipping out, he meets a nervy nonagenarian with her own battles about an absent mother.
Downsize - Hannah spills water on the boss and melts him down, just like the Wicked Witch in Oz. What now? -- 17 pages
Touching Down - Seneca Indian Thomas Touch-Fire, aged and tired, wants to exit his life with son-in-law Lindbergh's help. But Lindbergh, remembering the legends his father-in-law taught him, offers Thomas another way out. -- 24 pages Everything's Jake - When Jane reveals to Jacqui her strong love for Jacqui, she finds that Jacqui is willing to accept it -- but there is the small matter of someone named Jack that Jacqui needs to talk about. -- 14 pages In The Fort - At school someone calls Pablo's father a "wetback," but Pablo mis-hears it as "wetvac," which confuses him: his father a vacuum cleaner? Luz, his mom, soothes him but knows that the world is closing in. -- 10 pages The Famine Church, with David Eiduks and Amy Fulghum. Photo by Olayinka Ajakaiye. Hold On - As Cappy and Ronnie discuss the end of their relationship, a car crashes on a bridge and teeters on the edge -- only they can keep it from falling over. As they hold on to the car, they wonder if they can hold on to themselves. -- 19 pages Glory Train - A young woman threatens her fellow subway riders all with a vial of what she says is anthrax. -- 12 pages Equal. Separate. - Pat, white, and Chris, black, long-time friends and survivors of being "women in the building trades," lose their friendship when, over a shot and a beer, Chris finds out that Pat wouldn't let her daughter date Chris' son. -- 17 pages Tips - Two dollars on the counter, a tired waitress eying her tip, and a down-and-out man with itchy fingers. -- 2 pages.
