PEOPLE MAKING DANGER is a collection of quick, fun, three-act, feature-length stories, full of suspense, surprises and dark humor. All told in the present tense. Like reading a movie.

STORY ONE: THE QUIET ONES (Thriller, Suspense, Betrayal, Hope) - A girl goes missing, families fall apart and neighbors grow together with the help of their friendly local serial killer.

• Life in the suburbs is like anyplace else. Occasionally, the universe likes to make sure you’re paying attention. When a troublesome teenager goes missing, her father, a local cop, hits the sauce … Bob’s in over his head at work and messing around with his secretary … After losing her brother in a tragic leather bondage accident, Ruth needs to find her voice … And Junior … If it turns out he’s that big, friendly guy down the street with bodies in his yard, well, then, fine. But he’s going out his way.

STORY TWO: OPERATION DRAGONHEAD (Satire, Sci-Fi, Nostalgia) - Mistaking experimental Army communication helmets for alien antennae during a surprise training maneuver, rural townsfolk launch an improvised defense. Based on a true story.

• Early one morning, at the end of the 1950s, the sky above a small mountain town fills with parachutes. The streets flood with tanks and troops. An impressive, highly coordinated Army training exercise goes off without a hitch. Until the friendly town folk decide to fight back. Who launched Dragonhead? Sorry, that’s top secret. However, this satire IS based on a true story.

STORY THREE: HIGH DESERT (Bank Heist, Crime Legacy, Muscle Car Western) - A rotten Sheriff and reluctant hero settle old family scores beyond the reach of the law, with fast cars for horses.

• Our hero only wants to tinker in his desert junk yard, fish for wrecks on the highway and forget his family crime legacy. A rotten Sheriff, fate and a vault full of organized crime loot have another idea.

STORY FOUR: PAGANINI (Historical Fiction, Biography) - The wicked life of a sickly nineteenth-century Italian violinist, who played so beautifully, and broke so many hearts, they thought he was the devil.

• His music was spellbinding. He set Europe on fire. Voices burst from his violin. It was all so magical. But was it evil? In the end, he does confess. But not to that.

STORY FIVE: YARDLEY COUNTY (Regret, Redemption, Magical Realism) - A dead escaped convict finds himself, and his redemption, at the hometown robbery where a gunshot began his criminal career.

• What really did go down all those years ago in Yardley County? Well, memory is a funny thing. So, when he dies escaping prison, Lenny returns to his dusty hometown to remember. Unwinding these events leads to his only real choice.

BONUS STORY: VALLEY FOOTBALL (Sports Comedy, Adult Dilemmas) - Existentially lost grownups start a secret late night tackle football club in the suburbs.

BONUS STORY: THE TROP (Broad Comedy/Urban Farce) - This aging, and somewhat haunted, East Hollywood motel has rooms at reasonable rates for struggling stock characters on the down-and-out.

Why? Because good characters make poor choices.

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