Ill Wind (70 page)

“Redmond’s Private Screening”

A hard-edged horror tale.
For a shady filmmaker in the early days of Hollywood, it seems like a great opportunity when a disgraced samurai offers to commit seppuku before the cameras. But the cameras are rolling.

“Job Qualifications”

The expectations we place on our politicians seem impossible for any person to achieve. A candidate needs to be all things, know all walks of life,
understand
every segment of his constituency.
How could one person achieve so much . . . without a little help from a handful of clones.

“Prisons”

Co-written with Doug Beason. On a harsh prison planet, the warden and the staff are as much prisoners as the convicts, but a risky prison break might free them all.

“Collaborators”

Co-written with Rebecca Moesta.
A collaboration
is a close synergy between two creative artists, where one idea is a catalyst for another, and another. But when two people join their minds to create virtual universes, the artwork is so vast they begin to lose their own identities.