Rushing Thru the Dark

<p class=ql-align-justify>Rushing Thru the Dark features one-act plays and short screenplays poetry and art.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>This issue brings humor in the form of a fun math problem and Krampus in <em>A Night Alone in Santa Fe</em>; in an imagined letter in <em>Dear Jeff Bezos</em>; in a conversation between 2 males-with one clearly dominated by a narcissistic sociopath in <em>Best Friends;</em> from moments in a psychological solution to mother-in-law issues starring ancient Greek gods in <em>Malneirophrenia</em>; through an amusing look at how American family dynamics have changed over the last 60 years in <em>All Under One Sky</em>; from a comedic exploration into the importance of names in <em>Lost</em>; and in a screenplay's modern if somewhat horrific take on Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale in <em>The Riot Makers</em>.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>More serious issues are also addressed from a man's tense recounting of a moment of terror that made him remember his father in <em>Conflagration</em> to a woman's right to say no to motherhood (and not in the way you are thinking) in <em>Choice</em>.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>For an added treat is Ruth's screenplay <em>Mrs. Nash</em> dramatizing the life choices of the first historically documented EuroAmerican male who lived his life as a female in America.</p><p><br></p>