SYNOPSISAfter several months of no contact, Gorgo visits her brother. CAST OF CHARACTERSKATRÍN DAVÍÐSDÓTTIR asGORGO(NARRATOR) ALEX HØGH ANDERSEN asNATHAN GREY / JACK MOREAU REGINA KING asJAMARIE MONÁE MUSIC CREDITSYOU DON’T OWN MEWRITTEN by JOHN MADARA & DAVE WHITEPERFORMED by LESLEY GORE VII THE WOMAN WHO LAUGHS To speak out aloud when alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity which is within.— Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs I float at the bottom of the bathtub under a flotilla of ice cubes. My eyes are closed and my lips, too. I am motionless. Frozen. Unfeeling. Seconds… Continue reading SEVEN

SYNOPSISGorgo confronts Ash Devereaux over his unauthorized treatment of Marisol Vilaró. CAST OF CHARACTERSKATRÍN DAVÍÐSDÓTTIR asYELENA GORGO(NARRATOR) THEO ROSSI asASH DEVEREAUX(HEAD EMT OF UPRISING) KAYLEY CUOCO asGRETCHEN DEVEREAUX(ASH’S WIFE AND BACKSTAGE INTERVIEWER) DELROY LINDO asSAMSON DUNN(UPRISING Producer) VI CHOKEHOLD I come as a bladeA sacred guardianSo you keep me sharp and test my worth in blood— Sleep Token, Chokehold JACKSON HAS A BASTARD isn’t exactly headline news. Wait, is the kid a bastard if it’s a woman? That’s sexist. Women are just as capable of being bastards as men. Imagine that historic WE CAN DO IT poster, except in the… Continue reading SIX

SYNOPSISA deal was made. Payment is due. But nothing is ever that simple. CAST OF CHARACTERS KATRÍN DAVÍÐSDÓTTIRasYELENA GORGO(NARRATOR) ALEX HØGH ANDERSENasJACK MOREAU(FORMER UPRISING CHAMPION) TOM ELLIS asRICK RAVENSWOOD(THE MAN IN THE BLACK SUIT) V THE DEAL “What a man knows not, he to use requires, and what he knows, he cannot use for good.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust IT’S MARCH AND I’M PUSHING my brother in his wheelchair down the middle aisle of Christ Church Cathedral’s nave. He’s his usual self—a stiff, silent thing, pathetic and withered, and unable to communicate without his letter board or computer. His… Continue reading FIVE

SYNOPSISAfter Jack Moreau suffers a near fatal accident while crossing a street in Las Vegas, Gorgo is called to the hospital by his personal lawyer. CAST OF CHARACTERS KATRÍN DAVÍÐSDÓTTIRasYELENA GORGO(NARRATOR) VICTOR GARBERasMR. QUINLAN ALEX HØGH ANDERSENasJACK MOREAU IV MY BROTHER’S KEEPER For this failure and for no other faultHere we are lost, and our sole punishmentIs without hope to live on in desire.— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy THE SURGICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT lies beyond a set of wood-paneled double doors with narrow windows. There’s an intercom mounted on the wall. I press the button and wait. A few… Continue reading FOUR

SYNOPSISAfter convincing former homicide detective turned writer Alex Dupin to meet her at Spiral’s old house, Gorgo waits to set her trap and exact revenge on behalf of her father. CAST OF CHARACTERSKATRÍN DAVÍÐSDÓTTIRasYELENA GORGO(NARRATOR) PARKER POSEYasALEX DUPIN MUSIC CREDITSBLUE BAYOUWRITTEN by ROY ORBISON & JOE MELSONPERFORMED by LINDA RONSTADT III HIS HOUSE I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.— Mary Shelly, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus LINDA RONSTADT IS SINGING Blue Bayou as Alex stumbles back into the bookcase filled with row… Continue reading THREE

II PRETTY LITTLE THINGS There’s a devil waiting outside your door.— Nick Cave, Loverman FOURTEEN MONTHS LATER “LUCY CRIED AS THE REVOLVER PRESSED against the side of her head, just behind her left eye,” the author reads aloud from an unfolded book on a lectern. “The metal felt cold against her skin and every time she paused to breathe, the rancid smell of gun oil burned her throat. It was a sweet scent, like rotten bananas soaked in gasoline.” A poster-sized copy of the book cover rests on a tripod just left of the lectern. In the center is an… Continue reading TWO