People Making DANGER is a collection of quick, fun, three-act, feature-length stories, full of suspense, surprises and dark humor.
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Why? Because good characters make poor choices.
BONUS STORY: THE TROP (Broad Comedy/Urban Farce) - This aging, and somewhat haunted, East Hollywood motel has rooms at reasonable rates for struggling stock characters on the down-and-out.
BONUS STORY: VALLEY FOOTBALL (Sports Comedy, Adult Dilemmas) - Existentially lost grownups start a secret late night tackle football club in the suburbs.
Unwinding these events leads to his only real choice.
So, when he dies escaping prison, Lenny returns to his dusty hometown to remember. - What really did go down all those years ago in Yardley County? Well, memory is a funny thing.
STORY FIVE: YARDLEY COUNTY (Regret, Redemption, Magical Realism) - A dead escaped convict finds himself, and his redemption, at the hometown robbery where a gunshot began his criminal career.
But not to that.
But was it evil? In the end, he does confess.
It was all so magical.
Voices burst from his violin.
He set Europe on fire. - His music was spellbinding.
STORY FOUR: PAGANINI (Historical Fiction, Biography) - The wicked life of a sickly nineteenth-century Italian violinist, who played so beautifully, and broke so many hearts, they thought he was the devil.
A rotten Sheriff, fate and a vault full of organized crime loot have another idea. - Our hero only wants to tinker in his desert junk yard, fish for wrecks on the highway and forget his family crime legacy.
STORY THREE: HIGH DESERT (Bank Heist, Crime Legacy, Muscle Car Western) - A rotten Sheriff and reluctant hero settle old family scores beyond the reach of the law, with fast cars for horses.
However, this satire IS based on a true story.
Who launched Dragonhead? Sorry, that\'s top secret.
Until the friendly town folk decide to fight back.
An impressive, highly coordinated Army training exercise goes off without a hitch.
The streets flood with tanks and troops. - Early one morning, at the end of the 1950s, the sky above a small mountain town fills with parachutes.
Based on a true story.
STORY TWO: OPERATION DRAGONHEAD (Satire, Sci-Fi, Nostalgia) - Mistaking experimental Army communication helmets for alien antennae during a surprise training maneuver, rural townsfolk launch an improvised defense.
But he\'s going out his way.
If it turns out he\'s that big, friendly guy down the street with bodies in his yard, well, then, fine. . .
And Junior . . .
After losing her brother in a tragic leather bondage accident, Ruth needs to find her voice . . .
Bob\'s in over his head at work and messing around with his secretary . . .
When a troublesome teenager goes missing, her father, a local cop, hits the sauce .
Occasionally, the universe likes to make sure you\'re paying attention. - Life in the suburbs is like anyplace else.
STORY ONE: THE QUIET ONES (Thriller, Suspense, Betrayal, Hope) - A girl goes missing, families fall apart and neighbors grow together with the help of their friendly local serial killer.
Like reading a movie.
All told in the present tense.
People Making DANGER is a collection of quick, fun, three-act, feature-length stories, full of suspense, surprises and dark humor
