Resurrected 150 years after his death, Charles Dickens must transform “A Christmas Carol” into “A Capitalist Carol,” for use in American schools. Viewing Ebenezer Scrooge as a hero, not a villain, proponents of the Modern Truth Movement demand Dickens portray Ebenezer Scrooge as an ideal capitalist, while depicting Bob Cratchit as a freeloading loser who […]

It is a volatile time. There are riots in the streets. Boss Daley is holding court at the Democratic Presidential Convention. The mob is in bed with politicians. It is the beginning of a movement to close State Psychiatric Hospitals. It’s Chicago in 1968. Susan, a psychiatric social worker, breaks up with Dr. Mark Denning, […]

Brotherhood is what Bull bleeds and all that he knows. Being the king of The Devil’s Dust and surrounded by easy women was his everyday… until having his heart broke rooted him to the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Heartbroken, and drowning in lost memories he’s unsure of the direction of his life, when the […]

When Viney Walker’s long, absent father arrives in the 19th century Utopian Community of Rugby, TN, he begs her to return with him to the Great Smoky Mountains. Viney’s sister, Lizzie urges her to go, because a new setting will help Viney heal from a broken engagement. Viney acquiesces and in her new home, she […]