Thadeus Cochran is led to the small Connecticut town of Newbury, driven by words on the wind from a voice he has learned to trust. And whether the townspeople view the events to come as calling, clairvoyance or coincidence, the end result is the same: someone, soon, will be murdered, and it will be up to him to find the killer.As he meanders the maze, faces fall into his path as if puzzle pieces. Amy Emerson, an attractive widow who stirs feelings of his past loss, his present longi...

You're a rookie detective, and your grizzled veteran partner isn't thrilled at having to change your diapers after every murder. Nevertheless, he's walking you through your first case, like a children's primer, and it's up to you to keep your ears open, eyes wide, and mouth shut! Maybe, if you're worth the time and money the department's put into you, you'll solve the case. But no one's taking bets.

Artists Becker, Giles and Sugiyama began their journeys together, but time and talent have taken them on separate paths. "Sugi" has been hailed as a genius, Giles his equally-famous critic, Becker content to remain the peacemaker.As Sugi's projects become more ostentatious, stretching for miles in the sky and ocean and desert, so much more does Giles seek to keep him grounded. But the vicious critiques only serve to push Sugi to greater visions. Equally irritating to Giles are Sugi...

Zach Law is suffering not only because of an unseasonal San Diego heatwave, but also due to Brock the Parrot's inappropriate squawking and his young assistant Allie's tempting body. When a flirtatious divorcee hires him to find her homeless and heroin-addicted son, he recruits his brother, Mitch, a reckless body-building ex-rocker, to scour the streets. Mitch soon lives up to his wild reputation by luring Allie along and getting stabbed during an encounter. When the man who attacked him tu...

Brian Holloway was a star of the stage, until Claudia Graves came out of the darkness one night. Now he's a hollow shell of the man he was, bed-ridden and seemingly at death's door, or death's roommate. Yet never happier, for in his diminishing health, Claudia has risen, as if taking his talent as her own, to become the toast, and taste, of Broadway. But an old friend of Brian's has come from LA to see him. As he discovers the ungodly hold Claudia has over Brian, he sees he must risk his l...

In the border town of Imperial Beach, south of San Diego, a man becomes involved with a homeless kid whose only goal, besides panhandling for beer and staying stoned, is to get back to his hometown of Evanston, Illinois. The kid reminds the man of his own brother, whose life was nearly ruined by substance abuse, and so purposes to help the kid get back to his home and the family who left him. But there are people living in the homeless camp who are less welcoming, and the man finds that no...

Time is running out for a man running away. Divorced, desperate and carrying more baggage than can fit into his new Camaro, he leaves his family and ex-wife for Los Angeles and the dream of being a musician. Without plan, he detours to San Diego to visit his father, who, due to a lifetime of lies and substance abuse, wants no part of him. So he pays a visit to his Aunt and cousins, who are not as excited with his new venture, especially when he extends his welcome. As they gently, then for...

Two men working construction in San Diego are given the job of remodeling a La Jolla home once owned by mystery writer Raymond Chandler. When the story of Chandler's supposedly buried money resurfaces, their interest changes into finding out if those rumors were true, though neither have any intention of sharing what is found. And as one man suspects the other of sleeping with his girl friend, he plots to not only get the treasure, but at the same time get rid of the competition.

Ray is unwillingly pulled into conversations with women in the office via his friend, Paul, who is outwardly flirtatious and at times obscene. Focused only on an upcoming promotion, Ray finds himself in a few innocent but awkward encounters with a new girl in accounting. She sees his actions in a different light and tells a coworker that come Monday, she will file sexual harassment charges against him. When Ray hears this he is panicked, realizing that no matter how innocuous his actions w...

A man is waiting on his wife hand and foot, as he has done for decades. But the years have brought sickness and the possibility of death, which also brings guilt at a future finally free from constant servitude. But that freedom comes in a way he had never foreseen.

A man is driving, following a distant dot that stays on the far horizon. The road ends at a shopping mall, and upon entering he meets his father, whose morning ritual was to walk the mall. He realizes, slowly, that he is dreaming, as both his parents have died. But that realization also gives him the freedom to talk to his father in a way he never could. Coming upon a storefront they see a family inside having dinner. It is themselves, circa 1967, and as he watches himself and his brother ...

A Twilight-Zone-esque story. Sebastian Sage--scientist, genius--is hard at work on the problem of global warming, on which he believes he has a solution. He is approached by a man representing a group called GREAT MINDS. Their belief, based on the diminishing intelligence of man due to social media, is that the problems humankind will face in the future will require a greater mind-force than will be available. They therefore propose to send the greatest minds of the present into the future...