This week we visit an old Southern plantation. Likely one that grows cotton or tobakkie. The War for Independence has come and gone. The Founders have grown fat and happy.

But their slaves, well, not so much.

Folks don’t like being enslaved. And so, occasionally, they rise up and fight back.

They declare their Independence.

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This week we meet Stan. And Ollie. Neighbors. Friendly but not really friends.

Stan has a wife, three kids, a couple businesses. He’s a busy guy, high strung, stressed out. And now this broken bone in his left foot has him hobbled.

Ollie’s divorced. A good guy, a lonely guy.

Ollie and Stan’s wife Patty often walk their dogs together. Long walks. In the hills. Now something has transpired between Ollie and Patty. Or has it?

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This week we meet G Otterbein. When G Otterbein moves in next door, the MacLeod boys are quite certain he is either Gestapo, SS, or a concentration camp guard.

Their father landed on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Over the next year he battled the Nazis and helped liberate the death camps. He has no love for Germans. And he has passed his hatred on to his boys.

How’s it going to work out in this tranquil New Jersey suburb?

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This week we meet The Kid. The Kid just wants to shoot some hoops. Get in some practice before his school team tryouts next week.

But inside the old dairy barn out back where his father has hung a hoop, the kid runs into a spooky stranger. The unexpected encounter will have consequences neither of them can imagine.

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This week we meet Tammy. Every day Tammy thinks about doing it. And every day she doesn’t do it.

She wants to do it, or at least she thinks she does, but still she doesn’t do it.

She wants to do this and do that, go here and go there, but desire so rarely leads to action.

What is Life? What’s it for? What are we supposed to do with it? Is it anything more than the Random Thoughts in our Heads?

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This week we meet Tad. After years of Talk Therapy Tad finally has a breakthrough. He finally spits out the Truth. Finally utters the unutterable. But is his Shrink listening? Or has his Shrink checked out of the Game, consumed as he is by his own angsts and anxieties, his own dreams and desires?

SHRUNK asks those old Socratic questions: Do our fellow humans hear a word we say? Or does all the gibberish just fall on deaf ears?

Was it, me wonders, a giant cosmic joke to allow Humans to Communicate with all these silly little utterances that spill from our lips?

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This week we meet Baby Kane and his parents, Adam and Erin. Baby Kane is just about to escape from the back yard and crawl up onto the railroad tracks at the same moment the Union Pacific rolls west across the New Mexico desert.

Will Baby Kane get splattered by the lead locomotive? If he manages to stay off the tracks, what about the venomous rattlesnake that’s just had its rattle severed by the fleeing caboose? Will that sidewinder nail Baby Kane if not the train?

Mom and Dad are busy with their new biz, Land of Enchantment Adult Gifts and Novelties. They don’t know their boy’s in jeopardy. They don’t know what evils lurk.

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This week we meet the Fastballer. Throws over a hundred mph. Just signed a big fat MLB contract.

She’s a billionaire’s daughter. A wild thing. Really likes to have a good time. The crazier the better.

They meet at a South Beach soiree and that same night she recruits him for a trip to Greece to attend a fancy destination wedding.

What could possibly go wrong?

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