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A Therapeutic Breakthrough

A therapist proposes an unorthodox prescription for a client in a hurry in this improvised scene by Jessica Davenport and Lisa Martinovic.

Hot Flashing through Death Valley

Lisa Martinovic says women of a certain age have quite an adventure in store for them. In performance at the West Coast Regional Slam in Big Sur, California, in 2000.

Showdown at The Shoe Palace

An innocent but determined shopper becomes willing to pay a shockingly high price for fashion in this improvised scene by Grace Hawkins and Lisa Martinovic.

The Entrepreneur’s Dilemma

abysinnianIt was one of those utterly perfect East Bay days. The air so balmy, the sun so bright, people and their dogs walking oh-so-happy, you could easily forget the world was falling apart at the seams.

Brad Browning had been among the happily oblivious until news through the wireless jerked him from his reverie. Now he’s walking down Alcatraz, iPhone pressed up against the place where you get radiation tumors. He’s going for it, neck craned forward, eyes narrowed and blinking like

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The Carving Knife

wild turkey 2Susan Rasco was tired of running.

Her husband had hired a crew of chasers after discovering her missing from the laundry room where he’d chained her until she saw the error of her ways.

Ray was an ornery son of a bitch from the moment they said I do. Once he owned her, the law said he could do with her as he pleased, and so he did.

This came as a great shock to Susan, as it did to all young

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