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LaPush Stone: And Other Plays
Three sharp, clean, and absurd character-driven one-act plays explore the hard truths of American life, stripped bare. These plays dig into delusion, loyalty, and the twisted ways people connect and cut loose.
Reservoir Loop
A cold, night drive through Northeast Ohio. Leigh and Ray argue about a map and whether a road makes a U-turn in the middle of nowhere. A newscast breaks a serial killer is loose, the description matches Leigh to a T. She is magnetic and icy. Her dialogue is a masterclass in gaslighting. Ray is the epitome of obtusion.
LaPush Stone
A play of four monologues explores a love triangle.
Frank, isolated in Seattle, paralyzed by a past love that wrecked him, searches for a clean line of sight six years later. He calls Lucy, the past love who returned to her husband, Travis, and then left Travis again. Frank holds a black rock he found with Lucy on the beach at LaPush on the Washington State coast - a symbol of a promise they made. The call is a breakthrough.
Travis, betrayed by his best friend and his wife, clings to logic in his comfortable living room. Frank and Lucy's thing doesn't make sense to him. He holds Frank's old letter, proof of the lie Lucy told him, but cannot get his brain around it. He knows Lucy is chaos, a mess who took him for a ride.
Justin, Frank's big brother, sits alone in his office, sipping whiskey after talking to Frank, exasperated that Frank called Lucy. He says Frank poured "kerosene all over" himself after six years of being "dry" from her manipulation. He is tough and ordered.
Lucy, in Austin, is married to a loan officer. She is pulled back to the old hurt she caused Frank by his phone call. She admits to herself that she was a coward, running from true intimacy with Frank, and anyone else who deigned to love her. She knows she owes Frank and Travis the truth, but she owes herself more.
Knob Creek Hour
Neil and Ruby sit in recliners in Los Angeles as urban unrest grows outside—helicopters, bullhorns, tanks, gunfire. Their conversation has sharp edges. Neil is consumed by jealousy over a man Ruby once knew. Ruby is enduring, Neil, wounded. The city outside closes in.
A cold, night drive through Northeast Ohio. Leigh and Ray argue about a map and whether a road makes a U-turn in the middle of nowhere. A newscast breaks a serial killer is loose, the description matches Leigh to a T. She is magnetic and icy. Her dialogue is a masterclass in gaslighting. Ray is the epitome of obtusion.
LaPush Stone
A play of four monologues explores a love triangle.
Frank, isolated in Seattle, paralyzed by a past love that wrecked him, searches for a clean line of sight six years later. He calls Lucy, the past love who returned to her husband, Travis, and then left Travis again. Frank holds a black rock he found with Lucy on the beach at LaPush on the Washington State coast - a symbol of a promise they made. The call is a breakthrough.
Travis, betrayed by his best friend and his wife, clings to logic in his comfortable living room. Frank and Lucy's thing doesn't make sense to him. He holds Frank's old letter, proof of the lie Lucy told him, but cannot get his brain around it. He knows Lucy is chaos, a mess who took him for a ride.
Justin, Frank's big brother, sits alone in his office, sipping whiskey after talking to Frank, exasperated that Frank called Lucy. He says Frank poured "kerosene all over" himself after six years of being "dry" from her manipulation. He is tough and ordered.
Lucy, in Austin, is married to a loan officer. She is pulled back to the old hurt she caused Frank by his phone call. She admits to herself that she was a coward, running from true intimacy with Frank, and anyone else who deigned to love her. She knows she owes Frank and Travis the truth, but she owes herself more.
Knob Creek Hour
Neil and Ruby sit in recliners in Los Angeles as urban unrest grows outside—helicopters, bullhorns, tanks, gunfire. Their conversation has sharp edges. Neil is consumed by jealousy over a man Ruby once knew. Ruby is enduring, Neil, wounded. The city outside closes in.
92 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 29, 2025
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