Rushing Thru the Dark features one-act plays and short screenplays, poetry, and art.
This issue brings humor in the form of a fun math problem and Krampus in
A Night Alone in Santa Fe
; in an imagined letter in,
Dear Jeff Bezos
; in a conversation between 2 males-with one clearly dominated by a narcissistic sociopath in
Best Friends;
from moments in a psychological solution to mother-in-law issues starring ancient Greek gods in
Malneirophrenia
; through an amusing look at how American family dynamics have changed over the last 60 years in
All Under One Sky
; from a comedic exploration into the importance of names in
Lost
; and in a screenplay's modern, if somewhat horrific, take on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale" in
The Riot Makers
.
More serious issues are also addressed, from a man's tense recounting of a moment of terror that made him remember his father in
Conflagration
, to a woman's right to say no to motherhood (and not in the way you are thinking) in
Choice
For an added treat is Ruth's screenplay,
Mrs. Nash,
dramatizing the life choices of the first historically documented EuroAmerican male who lived his life as a female in America.