This collection of short, contemporary plays by award-winning playwright Susan C. Hunter provides a wide range of thought-provoking listening. Each play is a stand-alone gem, yet experienced together, they are eloquently connected, often mirroring the humorous and dramatic sides of the same themes. Alternately hilarious and moving, it is read by a full cast of talented narrators.

Forbidden love and fierce rivalry drive Jeff Hollister, a street-smart high school senior and gang leader of the Hurricanes, to the brink of disaster. Thinking he’s got the world in his back pocket, and the police at a safe distance, he and his scrappy gang of teenage delinquents come to discover they don’t always come out on top after all.A deadly vow by a member of the rival Tornadoes gang sets Jeff and his friends on a roller coaster of knife fray and gunplay, foot races and car ...

Pete Morrow is an alienated FBI agent whose only escape from thecolleagues and society he despises is through reading literary classics. Whenhis boss sends him to warn away a drug dealer on an obscure army base, hediscovers a murder and becomes obsessed with Jade McClellan, a mysterious manwhose rock band just performed at the crime scene. Tough-guy Morrow has neverbeen in love before—but Jade is almost magical, an embodiment of myth andliter...