In "ORDINARY MAGIC" Jack Daly, atheist and movie 'special effects' expert, creates holograms of Jesus and famous saints to preach the Sunday sermon at Holy Redeemer Church in a last ditch effort to keep the poor parish out of bankruptcy. Tickets to the service cost up $250 each. His uncle, Fr. Frank Shymanski, the pastor, is tormented over this as he believes they are committing a sacrilege against God and will be severely punished for it. Bizarre murders soon take place. A policeman is levitated to his death in the church. An altar boy is mortally torched by a blast of psychokinetic energy....

The story of Maudine Myrstoolkrwicz, a young woman living in a poor neighborhood, who has so many personal problems - she's not pretty, not smart, a virgin, too tall, too honest, scared, unlucky, nervous, shy, naive, lonely, unskilled, sad - that she develops an alter ego, Myrna, to deal with the harsh world around her. The setting is a run-down tenement building and the major characters are her colorful, very eccentric, co-tenants.

An uplifting, though unusual, coming-of-age story set in the modern day.

A beautiful young woman falls in love with a robot dog and her overweight, dowdy girlfriend finds happiness in a 3-D virtual world. An MIT computer scientist hopes to become a billionaire by inventing perfect sex. A gangster in Little Italy decides to admit women into the Mafia. A video game freak dares to do what only God has ever done before. The FBI offers to bring a person they murdered back from the grave. A deceased stage actor gets to play the greatest role of his life. The CIA uncovers a conspiracy in Manhattan that leads to the White House.

The resourceful patrons of a Wall Street area tavern must contend with serious issues -- stock scams, sexual taboos, old age, terrorists, unemployment, the Russian Mafia, cancer, murder, alcoholism, the Digital Revolution, and starting a new business -- in todays turbulent times.