New 10-minute play - AN UNROMANTIC ENCOUNTER

SYNOPSIS: On a rampart during the Battle of Britain, a sexy Dutch nurse and a reluctant English soldier "get it on."

Short story A LITTLE LIE to be published

Wingless Dreamer will publish my short story A LITTLE LIE in a fiction anthology on the topic of "Overcoming Fear" this year.

Three new publications: BEAUTY IS A FEMINIST ISSUE, QUEENIE, and RICHARD GERSTL

My essay BEAUTY IS A FEMINIST ISSUE will be published by the Havik literary journal in late May, 2020.

Also, monologue QUEENIE from my play CHESS & THE MIDDLE EAST is being published by Applause Books this year.

And my monologue RICHARD GERSTL, about a painter who lived in Austria, and committed suicide after a failed love affair with the wife of his best friend in 1908, has been published by In Parentheses last weekend.

THESE PEOPLE - new full-length drama

SYNOPSIS: A full-length drama in one act.  Three tenants of a run-down apartment building - an aging editor with epilepsy and depression, a young business woman from India, and a schizophrenic male bike messenger - become unlikely comrades.  A story about good faith, love, and friendship.

Syndrome Magazine will publish essay LEARNING TO DRIVE in 2020

Syndrome Magazine, a feminist humor publication, will publish my essay LEARNING TO DRIVE this spring.

SUMMARY:  What happens when you get your license at 16 but never feel comfortable behind the wheel?

Flash Fiction Trilogy LITTLE THEFTS a finalist

For the online literary journal Defenestration.net, my three short fiction pieces collectively titled LITTLE THEFTS will be published in Dec. 2019-Jan.2020.  Voting for "best entries" will happen later.

CHESS & THE MIDDLE EAST being produced in Maryland

CHESS & THE MIDDLE EAST, a serio-comedy about two men playing chess in a public park who are interrupted by a feminist while they argue about war between Jews and Arabs, will be produced in November 2019 by the Wheaton/Heralds of Hope Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland.