If We Were Villains, M. L. RioOliver Marks has just served ten years for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day of his release, he is greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, and he wants to know what really happened a decade before. As a young actor at an elite conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same characters onstage and off villain, hero, temptress though he was always a supporting

and her father recently diagnosed with ALS

and it runs deeper than Daphne fears

of what is and what has been and what will be

and ignites

These are the stories of life inside the courtroom

Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser

Dawn and Help

once described him as a visitor from another planet)

The future seems assured for the new queen and her maid-in-waiting

First we must become open to the possibilities of life outside our empirical understanding

You might even write it off as “dirty” and want nothing to do with it

Soon their attempts turn desperate