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            Here are the loglines for most of the stories I've created. Click the links for more information about each.  One caveat about genres: I like my comedies to have some dramatic moments and I want my dramas to have some funny ones.

ARC (a novel)
  logline: Titanic in Space  view the pitch

Andy (sci-fi, comedy)
  logline: What happens when an anatomically correct and fully functional android is leased to the university on the condition that the beloved psych professor teach Andy to be likeable?   read the 1-sheet

Baby Shoes (anthology of five shorts with a framing device)
  logline: Who would ever actually post an ad using Hemingway’s famous six-word story, “For Sale:  Baby shoes. Never Used” – and why?  view the pitch and read the 1-sheet

The Batting Order (sex comedy)
  logline: Four guys crack the code to DateMatch.com and come up with a surefire scheme to improve their “scoring” in the online dating world – only to have one of them fall in love, true love and threaten to spoil the perfect game.  view the pitch and the read 1-sheet

Circus Galaxus (sci-fi, action)
  logline: A trickster hero in the deadly world of the ultimate gladiator game show.  read the 1-sheet and view a video backstory

Garage Band (rock & roll comedy)
  logline: “Wild Hogs” with a rock & roll band instead of a biker gang.  read the 1-sheet and view a trailer

Halving it All (Faust, the comedy)
  logline: A harried businessman is tricked into a pact with the devil so that he can multi-task at work. When what is delivered does not measure up to what was promised,  Jeff must fight off the devil’s claim to his soul.  read the 1-sheet

Forged in the Fire (sci-fi – Part I of the Io Jaxx trilogy)
  logline: Friend, you’re asking yourself how it is that Io and Dexter developed this bond, this friendship? Well, it all came about in an earlier time, a greener time and the story that’s told goes like this . . .  read the 1-sheet and hear the song

Koorg & Gaar (Part II of the Io Jaxx trilogy)
  logline: Io and Dexter face a charismatic monster on a planet where magnetism supersedes every other force of nature.  read the 1-sheet and hear the song

Vermiana (Part III of the Io Jaxx trilogy)
  logline: You touch Vermiana, you’ll get portulaxis. You get portulaxis and soon you’ll die.  read the 1-sheet and hear the song

Slange (sci-fi in an historical drama setting)
  logline: A story of revenge and coming to grips with the sometimes inhuman anger and hatred that drive it.  read the 1-sheet