Each of the plays in this book is a complete dramatic work balanced for a two-actor performance. Lengths vary from ten to thirty minutes. Many different types of roles from liberated women to bumbling detectives, from childhood sweethearts to homeless immigrants.

The emphasis is on contemporary characters in contemporary situations. Parts for actors of all ages from teens to middle age.

Here's the story of the lovely but naive Daisy May McCoy, a backwoods beauty who takes off for fame and fortune in the Big Apple. There her dreams soon hit a wall of reality when she's forced to become a stripper in a Mob-owned nightclub. If that isn't bad enough, during a brief sexual encounter with the club's manager, Daisy accidently kills him and ends up in trouble with both the law and the Mob. Her story is splashed on every front page in the country as the Beauty in what the tabloids call the Beauty and the Beast murder trial. In this comic romp we see New York, its people, its prisons,...

When I Was Seventen: A Novel About Love, Friendship And Becoming An Adult is about a group of teenagers coming of age in suburbia. The main character, Jodie Banks, a shy seventeen year old, works on his high school newspaper. He's in love with Robin Klein, the newspaper's charming, pretty editor. The newspaper's staff includes a diverse group of teens, including one teen with a disability. Important and topical issues such as teen sex, AIDS, and abuse are covered in this exciting, touching novel - which every teen and every teen's parent should read. Order it on Amazon.Com.

A Child Of The Holocaust: A Non-Survivor's Story Of Survival. The happiness of a Jewish family is destroyed when the Nazis invade Holland on May 10, 1940. At first life goes on as usual, despite the Nazis' occupation of Holland. But then the round ups of Jews begin and this once happy family must hide or die. A gentile friend gives them shelter. But eventually they are turned in and are sent in cattle cars to a death camp in Poland. All, except the oldest son, Peter, are gassed; however, the novel is narrated by the spirit of the youngest son, Hans. The Nazis may have gassed this young boy,...

Hollywood Homicide starts out with the discovery of the body of a beautiful, young, tattooed blonde. Her body is found in an L.A. drainage ditch. Is she a starlet? A hooker? One thing's for certain: she's dead, shot in the head with a .22. Looks like a mob hit, but is it? Harry Apple, a former crime reporter, now a best-selling mystery writer and amateur sleuth living in L.A., is determined to find out who killed the tattooed blonde -- and why. Apple nearly gets blown up, gunned down and stabbed in the process of investigating this Hollywood homicide and writing his second novel, based on...

The Whacking Of Maddy Exotica: A Sci-Fi Satire takes place in the 25th Century. It is over four hundred years after the death of Windows Gates, who gave birth to this brave new world. But now that brave new world lies in ruins after several NukeWars and the Devastation. The population has strangely exploded while the food supply has drastically dwindled, leaving humanity to revert to the law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest. Max Riddle is born into this wild and crazy world and becomes its savior by killing the evil tyrant Maddy Exotica. This science fiction thriller is filled...

Here are thirty tales of suspense and imagination. Mysteries, comedies and tragedies are all here to entertain, frighten, fool, tickle and tantalize the reader. In this exciting book, you'll read about a very unfortunate fortune teller, an illegal alien who is not of this Earth, and even the discovery of a lost world that just might be the legendary Atlantis. And that's just three of the thirty stories. Mauro is a published playwright, novelist, poet and artist. The cover background of this book is one of Mauro's watercolors. His work can be seen on his website. All of his books and plays can...

A collection of holiday stories that are semi-autobiographical in nature. These short stories run the gamut of emotions from happiness, emotional pain, the joy of family at the holidays, recapturing feelings of past Christmas', as well as the seemingly absurd and humorous. This is a book for parents and adults of all ages who know how crazy and complex the holidays can be.