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Wild Massive

Scotto Moore’s Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Wild Massive network of theme parks, where technology, sorcery, and elaborate media tie-ins combine to form impossible ride experiences, where every guest is a VIP, the roller coasters are frequently safe, and if you don’t have a valid day pass, the automated defense lasers will escort you from being alive. ORDER WILD MASSIVE More »

Battle Of The Linguist Mages

In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire... Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of "power morphemes"—unnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception when skillfully pronounced. But Isobel’s reputation makes her the target of a strange resistance movement led by spellcasting anarchists, who may be the only thing stopping the cabal from toppling California over the edge of a terrible transformation, with forty million lives at stake. Time is short for Isobel to level up and choose a side—because the cabal has attracted much bigger and weirder enemies than the anarchist resistance, emerging from dark and vicious dimensions of reality and heading straight for planet Earth! Buy the book More »

Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You

Beautiful Remorse is the hot new band on the scene, releasing one track a day for ten days straight. Each track has a strangely powerful effect on the band's fans. A curious music blogger decides to follow Beautiful Remorse on tour, and realizes that the singer, Airee Macpherson, is hiding an incredible secret. YOUR FAVORITE BAND CANNOT SAVE YOU is a darkly comic whirlwind tour of the supernatural side of music. Published by Tor.com, February 2019. Buy via Bookshop | Buy via Indiebound | Buy via Amazon More »

Silhouette

Annex Theatre produced my musical, SILHOUETTE, in the spring of 2018. The story focuses on a settlement of conscientious objectors on a distant world, in hiding from an imperialist fleet, using magic to disguise themselves. When a military scout pilot crashes in their town, the former mutineers are forced to face the consequences of moral decisions made hundreds of years ago. SILHOUETTE won the 2018 Gregory Award for Outstanding New Play, presented by Theatre Puget Sound. Listen on Bandcamp More »

The Coffee Table

THE COFFEE TABLE is a sci-fi comedy web series: 35 short episodes about a family who discovers their new coffee table is an ancient alien artifact that sends their house shooting through the void – with them inside it, of course. Watch on YouTube More »

Can't Talk Right Now

Amanda is the host of a late night radio show, Signal Loss - a love letter to the analog era. She finds a twenty-year-old answering machine in a thrift shop, and is captivated by the cryptic and anxious messages on the device. She searches for the woman who left them and the woman who never heard them - and discovers the unlikely impact they had on each other’s lives. Produced by Theatre22, Feb 2016. Watch on YouTube More »

H.P. Lovecraft: Stand-Up Comedian!

Produced by Annex Theatre, April 2015; remounted for Bumbershoot, September 2015. Instead of expressing his terrifying vision of malevolent, eldritch gods via horror stories in the early twentieth century, H.P. ('Howie' to his friends) Lovecraft expresses his terrifying vision in the present day via stand-up comedy. But an ancient evil stirs beneath the sea— can Howie pull off one last sold-out gig before the human race is destroyed? Watch on YouTube More »

Balconies

Annex Theatre produced BALCONIES in August of 2014: The creators of the hit mobile game “Sparkle Dungeon 5: Assassins Of Glitter” are celebrating their latest success with a wild costume party for artists, agitators and hackers. But in the condo next door, a Senate campaign fundraiser is coming to town, attracting politicos, CEOs and media celebrities. As the two events spill out onto neighboring balconies, can an unlikely romance succeed in the midst of steadily increasing mayhem? More »

All Out Of Second Chances

A chance encounter on the Transcontinental Railroad ties an unlikely family together. More »

Exactly What You Would Do

An astronaut's new assignment jeopardizes her marriage in this sweet romantic drama. (A 14/48 play.) More »

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