Divine Madness
By James Ralston ACT I (early spring: wet and cold) Scene 1 Storm music. Lights slowly rise on a family living room (stage left) with jagged edges that blur into a cemetery (stage right). A fog surrounds a hollow…
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The Lone Star League
By James Ralston CHARACTERS: Smoky: the Owls’ field manager, mid-70’s Marion Crawford: a beat reporter for the Laredo Times, late 30’s Juan Diego Gomez: a potential superstar, a Mexican, early 20’s Jack Dogg Donovan: a former Big Leaguer, late…
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35 Folds to the Moon
By James Ralston CHARACTERS: LILLIA KRAMER: An actress HENRY VERMONT: Lillia’s partner, a writer YOUNGER HENRY: in Silver City, New Mexico YOUNGER LILLIA: traveling through Silver City GABBY: A Silver City bar-tender ALBIERTO: An off Broadway theatre entrepreneur LORRAINE:…
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That Terrible Thoreau
In the first hour of morning, Henry David Thoreau writes in his transcendentalist masterpiece Walden, “some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.”
I’m sleeping in my clothes on Emily’s living-room couch when I wake to find her two-year-old daughter, Ariel, clutching her stuffed tyrannosaurus and staring into my eyes.
“Go for walk?” she says.
Confessions From a Conversion Van
—for Raven We All Live In the Same House On the weekends I live in Cumberland, Maryland, in an old Victorian house divided into six apartments. The landlord tries to keep the place up—fresh paint, hedges trimmed—to conform to the…
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