Paul Culos

A self-conscious psychopath struggles with his body image while terrorizing a group of unsuspecting campers.

GOLDEN BOY is the story of James, a young man who gambles on the dangers of being seen versus the quiet life of desperation and invisibility. Saved from doomed nonexistence by CQ, a wealthy debonair businessman with more going on than meets the eye, and introduced to a world he is not ready to navigate. We follow him as he chases his dreams -- while losing himself, one piece at a time. GOLDEN BOY is a story with universal themes. Trust. Seduction. Betrayal. Redemption.

Ella finds a small zipper under her lover’s tongue as he lies sleeping. When she pulls it, her lover opens up “like an oyster,” revealing a second man. Ella soon realizes she has a zipper under her tongue as well, and the story ends with her fingering it uncertainly, trying “to imagine what she’d be like inside.”

Bernie Clemmons is a pastor's wife with a rigid moral compass. When she is forced to deal with a secret that has been the cause of an on-going internal struggle, she must make a decision on whether today is the the day she will speak her mind and take a stand.