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A horrendous storm looms over a rundown truck stop diner in Grand Island, Nebraska, bringing together ten people who start to reveal damaging secrets as the night goes on. This critically-acclaimed stage play features roles for 7 women and 3 men. The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance awarded the world premiere with two awards: Best Original Script and Best Original Production. The play received a New York premiere at the Creative Place Theatre.

42 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 17, 2013

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David-Matthew Barnes

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David-Matthew Barnes is the award-winning author of fifteen novels, three collections of poetry, seven short stories, and more than seventy stage plays that have been performed in three languages in twelve countries. He writes in multiple genres, primarily young adult, romance, thriller, and horror. Five of his stage plays have received off-off Broadway productions.

As a film producer, he has helped bring fifty films to the screen including many independent films, horror movies, and international films.

He has been selected for three Sundance Collab screenwriting workshops. He was named a finalist for the Sundance Institute YouTube New Voices Lab.

David-Matthew is the winner of the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award, the Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award for playwriting, the Slam Boston Award for Best Play, and two Elly Awards for playwriting from the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance.

To date, he has written eight produced screenplays. He is a graduate of the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA.

David-Matthew is a member of the Dramatists Guild, International Thriller Writers, Romance Writers of America, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

He lives in Sacramento, California where he serves as the founding Artistic Director of Pioneer Players, a nonprofit theatre company producing uplifting shows including plays for young audiences and original works.

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April 5, 2020
Hard to believe a lot of what was going on here. Lot of people killed, lots of arguments, and just difficult to understand these characters beyond them hating their town.
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