Performed by Val Cole

“A riddle of Breakable things”, by Janine Parkinson
A love like ours starts out
with one cup of sugar
a teaspoon of thyme

Add a fight,
some words unkind
we sit broken, cracked, poached

Resting in silence, stirring
your pointed finger, stabs
Oozes yellow

The sunset
repla...

Genre: Literary

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Genre: Drama
Length: 2390 words
Synopsis: A young woman struggles to navigate through life and love in the aftermath of an horrific accident.

autobiographical comedic soliloquy

Synopsis: A man recounts his tough hillbilly life.

Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your short story about?

It's an exaggerated version of my life... mostly true (divorced only 2 kids).

Basically it's a satirical tale about the...

Hardboiled fiction

Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your short story about?

A quick cash job gone wrong.

2. What genre(s) would you say this story is in?

Hardboiled fiction

3. How would you describe this story in two words?

Bad strangers

4. What movie have you ...

Performed by Val Cole

TITLE: Independence Day
TYPE: Literary Fiction

SYNOPSIS:
A mother and her pre-school son suffer the tension of divorce while preparing for Independence Day fireworks. They discover each other's needs when an injured soldier teaches them what it really means to be a hero.

In 1941, Sadie Kleinberg's ten-year-old niece, Rhoda was quarantined in the children's polio ward at St. Giles Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Rhoda was immobilized and bedridden. Visiting hours were restricted to two days a week for one hour. Aunt Sadie took it upon herself to be Rhoda's cheerleader, ...

LOGLINE: May these beautiful poems and letters, written to an isolated ten-year-old girl eighty years ago, bring solace to those who are going through hard isolating times today.

Title: Aunt Sadie's Letters of Hope & Healing

Author (Written by) : Shari Lyn Anderson

Genre: Family – Love – Hi...

Performed by Val Cole

COFFEE by Paul Wood

On no what a palaver

What an awful din

The barista is going crazy

As the customers all pile in

Mums with small children

Spotty teenagers with attitude

All sorts from all walks of life

Are waiting in the que

I shuffle slowly along the co...

When Ashley’s husband dies, at fifty-two, an attractive woman, she meets Stephan on a luxury cruise. He not only rekindles her desire for sex, but makes her happy and content.

by Val Cole

Romantic Novel.

Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

An autobiography – told in little snippets.

2) What motivated you to write this poem?

I am currently in a creative writing class.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

I really started writing creatively ...

The IRGC, the unofficial rulers of Iran, are in danger of losing control of the country, so they back a terrorist plot against America on Independence Day.

Performed by Val Cole

Genre: Crime- noir

Synopsis: Detective Sifuentes has an impeccable rap sheet, up until
now, when he meets his match.

SIFUENTES THE RELENTLESS

Detective Sifuentes had a brilliant track record on the city
police force. His service sheet was impeccable and he had numerous awards to his credit. ...

The story of a young man who tries out for a big league baseball team, whether you like it or not.

Director Michael Jonathan Gellis

On a beautiful, sunny day five year old Zizou fell to the ground and died when his heart suddenly stopped. In that moment of losing my son I was thrown into the cold reality of America’s complicated relationship with death. Through animation, "Death and Magic Castles" explores traditions of mourn...

The diverse crew of the tramp steamer Stella Maris sails into fantastic danger in the South Seas in this horror adventure set in the 1930s.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Seaman Casey: Shawn Devlin
Sean: Steve Rizzo

12 SHADES OF GREY, 22min., Australia, Documentary

Directed by Anthony Gordon

To have followed mainstream media for best on four decades, together with countless films and television programs relating to the Great White Shark, its no surprise that the overwhelming public and social sentiment is ...

Where fantasy meets procedural mystery, a cantankerous Chief Constable must solve crimes AND judge them in a dark and dangerous metropolis. Vike struggles with his own addictions and fears while up against the Arklanen: an underground guild of dark magic, responsible for the death of Vike's wife....

DEATH AND MAGIC CASTLES, USA, Animation
Directed by Kari Barber
On a beautiful, sunny day five year old Zizou fell to the ground and died when his heart suddenly stopped. In that moment of losing my son I was thrown into the cold reality of America’s complicated relationship with death. Through a...

Directed by Tayo Giwa

Writer/Produced by Cynthia Gordy Giwa

The Sun Rises in The East chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Led by educator and activist Jitu Weusi, The Ea...

Directed by Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan

This is a fictional story about the future of companionship between human and inanimate. It tells of a plush Inanimate , with a soul from a baby lion, who craves the new science and technologies of synthetic DNA, artificial intelli...