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POOR FRANK is the story of Anci De Lapp who sees  a celebrated film maker, Frank, sitting up the aisle from her on a plane to Los Angeles.  The elderly lady sitting beside Frank goes to the restroom. Anci follows the old lady and slips her nearly her last $50 to change places with her. [...]

BIOLOGICAL TIME CLOCK is the story of a young woman (Evelyn) who comes to the mythic French Quarter of  New Orleans in the 1960’s with a sense of romantic readiness. As she ambles along in the intermittent shadows beneath the wrought iron grill work overhead, she watches the jazz musicians just coming out of the [...]

TENDER GRAPES is the story of Evelyn (a precocious girl) growing up in a small southern town in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Evelyn’s parents (union organizers) have sent Evelyn here to Aunt Mildred (a good-natured, but uneducated and bigoted farm woman who lives at the edge of poverty).
Aunt Mildred loves Evelyn as the child she [...]