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A collection of thought-provoking contemporary tales of Catholic Faith set in the Diocese of Metuchen.

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth set in a post World War Two Latin American Nation

Fawler Mulrae is a successful man with a wife, children and an excellent career. A chance meeting draws him back into the world of his youth and he must face the implications of his troubled past as he seeks to help a promising youth get a start in life. Fawler's redemption comes at a painful cost in this fascinating exploration of human growth and potential.

Ten-year-old Nicky Moskoff's suburban life is shattered when an act of vengeance exacted upon his prosecutor father leaves him an orphan. With nowhere else to go, young Nicky's sent to live with his rough-and-tumble grandfather in the underbelly of a working class section of Brooklyn known as Bensonhurst. Unaccepted and taunted by Paulie and his gang of neighborhood troublemakers, Nicky learns to survive by his fists and his wits. In their late teens, Paulie commits an act of cruelty against Nicky's grandfather. Nicky's swift and violent response, leaves Paulie wounded and lusting for revenge. Suddenly alone in the world, Nicky encounters Mona, an alluring older woman...with selfish reasons, she seduces him and invades his isolated world. When Nicky senses her feelings for him might be superficial, he finds himself in a dire situation that could bring Paulie's vengeance upon him and cost him his life.

Billionaire Rutherford Duquesne, is visited on his deathbed by a creation of his own mind. This ethereal doppelganger makes him realize his life was a failure with the things that should have mattered to him. It also forces him to acknowledge that his fatherly indifference, may have been the cause of a horrific accident committed by his son.

The silent film era had two mega matinee idols. One Rudolf Valentino, was foreign and had an alluring mystique. The other, Dash Buchanan, some years younger, was considered the wholesome red-blooded boy next door. Newspapers often glorified the infamous rivalry between Hollywood's most famous leading men, a rivalry that abruptly ended with the death of Rudolph Valentino on August 23, 1926. With his major rival gone, Dash Buchanan was poised to dominate the silent film world. Then in 1927 The Jazz Singer was released Dash Buchanan was never seen or heard from again. To this day film historians often speculate about whatever happened to him.

Is it a miracle or his mental illness? Jesse, after spending a lifetime in a mental institution still has visions of a noted saint. When he is brutally beaten by another patient, the indifferent hospital administrator, to avoid a scandal tries to cover it up. Jesse's devoted sister and his cousin while seeking the truth about the incident come to the realization that his visions of that saint may be authentic and Jesse too, might be a saint.

Giorgio Danese is furious! His mother has married his devious Uncle, the same uncle, who Giorgio suspects put a hit out on his father and took control of his family's crime empire. With threats from a rival mob family and the appearance of his father's ghost, Giorgio's seeks the one thing all true mob sons must...revenge! Bullets flying and bodies disappearing aside, this modern retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy retains all the elements that made Hamlet the Classic drama for the ages.

Terry McCory, better known as faded gay porn superstar Blaze Wilde, is heading home after a failed suicide attempt. With his career over, penniless, injured, he returns to the place he fled as a teenager, where his mother, illegitimate half brother and twin sister still reside in a cycle of poverty, and abuse. Unwelcome by his alcoholic mother and resented by his slothful brother. Terry is forced to come to terms with demons of his past and face the person that he truly is. The play reaches its climax when Terry uncovers a base and ominous family secret that has molded them all into whom and what they are.

SYNOPSIS Set in the confines of a Catholic mission in a poor urban neighborhood, "Extreme Unction" is the story of Father Ricky Petroni, a dedicated priest as and doctor, who sacrifices everything he holds sacred, including one of his vows and his life to rescue the people around him.

After her double mastectomy, Nadine Carlton, one of the world's greatest living artists has isolated herself from humanity. Suffering with terrible doubts about whom she is and the value of her work; she momentarily leaves her seclusion and encounters Billy Windship, a homeless young man with a celebrated past. Feeling pity for him, she invites the young stranger into her insolated cocoon. As Billy and Nadine, in desperate need of one another, shut themselves off from the rest of the world. A story unfolds revealing compassion, commitment, fear and anger that reaches a crescendo of raw human emotion and tenderness.

Mark, the troubled son of an anti-Catholic minister enters the confessional of Father Rick Petroni, revealing a personal secret and threatening an ominous act, that the young priest is able to prevent. When he refuses to violate the seal of that confession. Father Rick finds himself drawn into a fast-developing family crisis that leads to a heated confrontation with Mark's father.

From April until July 1994, nearly one million tribal Tutsi men, women, and children were ethnically cleansed from the tiny African nation of Rwanda by tribal Hutus, many of whom were their friends, relatives, and neighbors. Letters from Kigali is an accounting of that genocide told through a series of letters sent by a naive young American priest, to his friend Sister Pauline, a nun back home.Father Patrick Murphy was never supposed to be in Rwanda. He was sent in place of another priest who suddenly turned up missing. With no one else available to him his superior, Father Edward Gonzalez, is forced to send the young Patrick. Somewhat innocent to the world around him the dutiful young priest heads to Kigali. Upon his arrival to the tiny African nation, Father Patrick meets Annjeanette, the Tutsi head nurse of the clinic he has been sent to manage. She will play a pivotal role in the story as she gives an accounting of the facts of the genocide while she is hiding and fleeing from Hutu murderers that are endlessly pursuing her. One of those murderers, Raul, the clinic's Hutu postman and Patrick's friend, goes from a bookish daydreamer to a merciless machete-wielding killer who holds Patrick hostage. Though fiction, Letters from Kigali is a factual accounting of the ghastly events that took place in that tiny African nation in the spring of 1994.

Oedipus, one of western literature's most tragic figures, has died in exile leaving an empty throne. With his brother-in-law Creon serving as regent, one of Oedipus's sons demands his uncle step aside and let him assume his birthright. However, the other son, with his own agenda advises patience. What ensues is a grasp for power that involves deceit, banishment, armed confrontation and a struggle that draws two of Mount Olympus's most noted gods into conflict.

Night Sweats On a business trip to New York, a young Englishman who wakes up in strange surroundings with no memory of how he got there, finds himself unwilling witness to an act of brutality.Love is Blue Two star-crossed lovers share more than their love for a song as a dysfunction in one leads to ecstasy in another.The Devoured Why is Father Martin refusing to grant absolution to the penitent in his confessional?The Brothers Azzorano Old wounds surface as two brothers confront each other at their father's grave site.Paternal InterruptionsA domineering stage father meets his match when an abrasive playwright interrupts his strained relationship with his son.

The protracted conflict with the Celadon Empire ended in humanity's greatest victory, bringing with it half a million years of human prosperity and culture across the universe. To maintain this long standing Pax Humana; two vast human empires have been established. The sons of the Chalafonte family rule the Dardis Imperial Republic as the Fortinbras daughters reign in The Sovereign Republic of Tendus. When the Priam of the Dardis Imperial Republic unexplainably allows an illegal and dangerous colony to exist unopposed, a crisis ensues-threatening the great human peace. After a violent assassination, negotiations stall and the two empires move closer to a confrontation. Arcturus, the heir apparent of the Dardis Imperial throne, desperately tries to convince his father to maintain peace at all costs. His efforts fail, and an unavoidable war erupts. It's then; the results of an insidious plot by remnants of the old Celadon Empire are exposed, revealing a secret that could bring both empires to their end. Arcturus, thrown into a position of authority, must confront this secret and his destiny. Will he be able to save the universe from prolonged destruction or will secrets regarding his true self destroy him and end universal peace forever?

THE JANISSARY IMPEDIMENT: Asher Aragon, a young inept revolutionary and assassin, has been banished to a deserted planet to die. Much to the irritation of his keepers, Asheron isn't only surviving, he's thriving. His solitude is suddenly disrupted when a beautiful being is suddenly left on his world.THE STANDARD PROCEDURE: As humanity's deadliest and most prolonged conflict is nearing its end with a human victory in sight. Captain Agatha Tamberelli prepares herself to administer a dreaded procedure on a young high value captive, that could not only hasten the enemy's defeat but will alter that young prisoner's emotional state forever.THE WRECK OF THE EDMONIA LEWIS: With his enemies doggedly pursuing him, Xer Dragnea had no choice but to pilot his ship the Edmonia Lewis, into a deadly quarantined region of space. He wasn't long inside that deadly region, when the Edmonia Lewis imploded. Abandoning his ship, he pilots his life-craft, out of that region into an area of space unknown to him and his kind, where a terrible conflict is raging furiousl

Isolated in his apartment, young writer Gabe is in a harrowing situation. With no money, no food and a neighbor bent on doing him harm, Gabe, while writing his novel decides it might be better if he wasn't around anymore. However, two ethereal beings that also occupy the small apartment, will do whatever they can to prevent the young writer from harming himself.

Adam DuChantier a great artesian and glass master sits at a café with his friend Pierre, enjoying the quiet now that the tourists have left Cape May, when strange and frail woman approaching them from across the street. Only when Adam's close friend and client Jessica shows up, is it revealed the two women share a violent connection that directly affects Adam. Can Jessica stop this woman from revealing facts that could shred Adam to pieces or will Pierre, who figures things out force them all to face the truth?

When a bitter personal conflict between the mayor of a small but wealthy eastern city and the CEO of a fortune 100 company leads to a careless accusation. Five empowered and accomplished women are drawn into tragic events that change the course of their lives and lives of all around them.

Sean Gregor, the world's greatest tenor, didn't know what price he'd pay when he entered the Palatial Ditmas Park home of the musically renowned DeFalco family and agreed to star in their upcoming opera. As opening night approaches, Sean finds himself trapped in a web of duplicity, bitter rivalries, vengeance and lust. Things only get worse for Sean when his career is suddenly threatened by a DeFalco family member. Desperate to neutralize this threat, Sean forms an alliance with the one DeFalco who can stop the onslaught before it starts.Decades later, unable to avoid them, Sean must confront the consequences of his earlier actions revealing terrible truths about himself and the two reclusive remnants of the DeFalcos who keep an ominous secret hidden with them in their Ditmas Park mansion.

After his defeat by Darren Moskoff, the nation's most renowned junior sharpshooter, Vaughn Newcot wrongly interprets an innocent misunderstanding as an insult and a snub. Taunted by his abusive father for losing, Vaughn allows a dangerous hatred for his rival to fester. A decade later, after committing a violent action, Vaughn sets out to avenge this insult, and while seeking the Moskoffs, takes off on a violent cross-country odyssey. Mitchell Fenwick, a young Canadian recently discharged from the French Foreign legion forces his mother to reveal a secret from her past involving Darren's father that must be rectified. With no other option available, Mitchell too sets out to find the Moskoffs.In search of Darren and his father, both Mitchell and Vaughn journey from New York City to the Adirondacks and finally to a sleepy New Jersey beach town, where Vaughn and Mitchell collide in an act of unspeakable carnage leaving one dead and the other forever changed.

Rory Montenero is desperate to stop corporate raider Rutherford Duquesne from taking over the pasta company his parents built. To prevent this, he seeks the help of Pierre, Rutherford's only son. For personal reasons, Pierre stops his father's hostile takeover bid cold. A Stalemate develops, that leads to betrayal, as hidden family secrets on both sides surface and smash together, as family members are pitted against each other, in a battle for control of a company and their individual destinies.

Set in Central New Jersey, these three tingling tales will keep you up at night no matter where you're from.

Is it a comedy, is it a drama, is it a farce? The curtain is about to rise at one of America's most renowned LORT theaters, where a noted but eccentric theatrical company gets ready to stage an important new work by one of the nation's most distinguished playwrights. To help bring in a fresh audience its decided against the wishes of the cast and crew that a leading Hollywood action star would be cast in a featured role. It doesn't take long for old rivalries, love triangles, spite and envy to rise as this play with in a play proves with mirth and pathos that the biggest drama is always back stage!

On a storming afternoon during its 50th anniversary, a lapsed Catholic facing a crisis, rushes in to Our Lady of Peace Church seeking solace and help. While pleading for intersession, she en-counters a young stranger who seems to know her and her situation a bit too well.

With a violent blizzard approaching, recently ordained Lutheran Minister Luke Hardenberg arrives at his mother's home for Thanksgiving. Delighted to see him, Inez is concerned why his beautiful young wife isn't with him. Mark, Luke's older brother soon shows up and is suspicious about Luke's evasive behavior. Trapped by the worst blizzard in memory events unfold that reveal the ominous secret why Luke's wife is absent.