The Other Woman and Other Short Pieces - Saint Francis Talks to the Birds & The Blizzard & Moby-Dude or the Three Minute Whale

The Other Woman is a dark drama of sexual obsession within a marriage, as Thomas's sleepwalking wife, Emma, becomes his mistress without knowing it - M1,F1

St. Francis Talks to the Birds is a comic excursion into death and dying in which the holyman meets a couple of desert vultures waiting to turn him into dessert - M2,F2

The Blizzard brings Salim and Natasha into the country house of Jenny and Neil on a fateful night when the house's owners must decide whether to put their trust in a pair of strangers - M2,F2

In Moby-Dude or The Three Minute Whale, Nathaniel, a stoned-out surfer dude, summarizes Melville's classic for his skeptical high-school teacher in a high-speed monologue - M1

"A haunting suspense story ... A shiver-inducing erotic pas de deux ... A cleverly wrought yarn that also possesses real emotional depth, The Other Woman generates both edge-of-your-seat suspense and a measure of compassionate wonder about the mysterious frailty of the mind, and of the married state

It is seriously spooky, and good fun, but it's also a sensitive, sorrow-tinged parable about the secrets and lies that can create dangerous fissures in a seemingly firm relationship" ~ NY Times