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After dropping out of high school and getting kicked out of the house, a disenfranchised teen moves in with Gina, an underage sex-worker and the teen's only friend. While intitially a refuge from the judgement of the outside world, Gina's house becomes yet another prison in the endless desert that entraps them. Throughout their time living together, they are sucked deeper and deeper into the quicksand of addiction, eventually finding themselves totally isolated. The other kids they used to party with have moved on. Their families won't speak to them unless they clean up their acts. All they have left is each other and the vaguest outline of a plan. One day they'll move somewhere where there's water and trees. The only other people they encounter with any regularity are Gina's clients, who include Officer Krum of the Fernley Police Department, amongst other supposedly upstanding citizens. They are kept afloat by their dream of a lighter life, in a landscape as different as could be from the arid expanse in which they've (mis)spent their youths, and the unrelenting hope that the grass really is greener and they're just a few lucky breaks away from a one-way ticket out of this town. This work of fiction in verse explores alienation, addiction, the necessity of dreams, and the enduring power of friendship to get you through your darkest times.

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Melina Cohen-Bramwell he/him, dropped out of high school to join the circus but, as it soon became clear, was far better suited to a life of hermitage. He now communicates with the outside world primarily through scraps of paper covered in discarded lines that float out the window on breezy afternoons- and the occasional cohesive manuscript slipped in single pages under the door. If you wander about when the moon is high and the wind blows at just the right timbre, you might catch a glimpse of him darting in and out of the shadows in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also just so happens to be a biracial, gender-queer, spoonie. His play, Please Don't Slow Me Down, was workshopped in PlayGround SF's summer 2023 Free Play Festival. His play, One of the Good Ones, received a reading in 2022 at Theatre Battery and in PlayGround SF's 2024 Free Play Festival. His book, Bar Fights with Sad Kids, is available from Finishing Line Press or an internet commerce site near you.

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