Yaozu Cheng, a fifteen-year-old Cantonese youth, ventures with his uncle down the Pearl River to Kowloon, where they embark on a treacherous Pacific voyage to GUM SAN, the Golden Mountain. Gold rush California has lured diverse characters from all corners of the earth, but Yaozu's new life as a miner proves grueling and unrewarding. Yaozu's luck takes a remarkable turn when he meets Lola Montez, a worldly stage performer who takes interest in his skill with Chinese calligraphy and a journal Yaozu has kept of his travels. Yaozu's journal is filled with visions of Canton, Chinese folklore, San...

CAPTIVATING THE ESCAPE ARTIST is a modern day tale that explores same sex relationships. A gypsy boy from Algiers meets an aspiring composer-musician in San Francisco. In unseemly settings, they share lively conversations about ant etiquette, rude idioms, and a satirical history of mankind. Their two histories span childhood discoveries, the insecurities of teenagers, highs and lows of substance abuse, and the miracles of recovery. Told with self-effacing heart and humor, the two characters mature, showing a capacitiy for loving and sharing each other in a world worth living in - yes, a world...

Heads will roll, critics will scoff, and dead relatives will roll over in their graves. Follow Jacob, a mattress delivery driver, into uncharted realms of the human psyche. This irreverent tale of an infinite hallway of colored doors is theater-of the-absurd at its best. Jacob cautiously steps into bizarre nightmares and sublime dreams. As in Aldous Huxley's DOORS OF PERCEPTION, Jacob enters realms of the infinite, leaving behind his daily life with its narrow scope. At first fearful, he seeks to escape the strange hallway, but later, he questions his desire to return to his ordinary routine...