Breaking Character By: Lee Winter Synopsis Life has become a farcical mess for icy British A-lister Elizabeth Thornton. America's most hated-villains star in a top-rated TV medical drama that she hates. Now, she's been romantically linked to her perky, new co-star, Summer, due to the young woman's clumsiness. As a closeted actress, that's the last thing Elizabeth needs. If she could just get her dream movie role life would be so much better. The only problem is the eccentric French filmmaker offering it insists on meeting her "girlfriend", Summer, first. Summer Hayes is devastated when her co-star shuns her for accidentally sparking rumors they're lovers. Now, the so-called British Bitch has the audacity to ask Summer to pretend to be her girlfriend to get her a role? Elizabeth doesn't even like Summer! Oh, and how she loves to tell her no. And Summer definitely would if it wasn't for the fact she's maybe a tiny bit in ...
Blueprints For Better Worlds By: Tenea D. Johnson Synopsis Two girls barely in their teens devise on escape from a world abandoned by the privileged, ravaged by climate change, and losing its way. Will they find what the world has lost and what they've a so far only found in one another? Can a manufactured heaven floating amongst the stars provide more than illusions of perfection? How might it improve the world that its customers vacated? When all you have left is the space between you, can you overcome the distance, and what might be lurking in the things that you don't say, the days can't share, the secrets you keep from your self? In the absence of government, how can the people left behind avoid a grim fate of air thinner by the day, hope thinner by the hour? Is home where you're from or how it treats you? How much a home is a place where you're not equal? Might you change that by stepping into another person's life? Or stepping into new territories with...