Erotic, surreal, macabre--startling stories of obsession and desire, loneliness and loss, and choices driven by love.

It is 1925. Ossian Cain-a widowed black doctor with a teen daughter, a new wife and baby, and a dentist brother-buys a home in a white neighborhood in a northern industrial city. On their second night, the Cains are threatened by a mob that calls for lynching and hurls rocks through their windows. During the confrontation, a white man is shot dead. The entire family is arrested and charged with first degree murder. Summoned by the local NAACP, legal legend Charles Durham, defender of the damned, comes to town to try to keep the Cains out of the electric chair. Like Inherit the Wind, The Mark of Cain is a courtroom drama with one foot in the history that inspired it and the other in the turbulent time in which it was born.

Poet Lisa Wiley explores the intersection of motherhood and writing in this unique collection of works inspired by her daughter and by being a daughter.

A searing family drama of Alzheimer's, madness, and murder by the Edgar Award-winning author of Matter of Intent . . . When John Pickett is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, his children find themselves in a virtual war with their stepmother. At every turn she thwarts their efforts to secure John's care and the family's security. Finally she resorts to a shocking act of violence. Wading into family conflicts and long-buried secrets, Detective Maxine Travis tries to piece together what made Ruthie Pickett point a gun at her husband and pull the trigger.

When a strange mystic with a zombie-like slave comes to a sleepy German village--and the bodies begin to pile up--it is up to Francis, a brave medical student, to unmask the killer. Can he do so in time to save his beloved Jane? A stage version of the classic 1919 German Expressionist silent horror film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" suitable for professional and community theaters and schools.