Nina and Simone, friends and partners, quit practicing law and open up a diner in small-town South Carolina. The eatery is a success, but Simone hopes they can spend more of their time traveling. Nina is happy in the rural South and dreams of opening a feminist bookstore.

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At the end of this pilot screenplay, the residents of Pluff Mud Place are enjoying the effects of the drug, 20 More Years. They confront their relatives and insist on living independently

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The residents of Pluff Mud Place refine their business plans and fight with their relatives after taking the rejuvenating drug 20 More Years. Owners Sherrod and Bulgur decide to charge the residents more for room and board.

BTW: "B is for Bisexual" is number 42 in this list of Top 50 podcasts: podcast. feedspot.com/bisexual_podcasts/.

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In this 4th of July special, Dante, Marco, and Laura read the first part of the screenplay, 20 MORE YEARS - a story about the residents of a long-term care facility who may become test subjects for a longevity drug. The residents are happy, but what about their children and grandchildren?

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

Jonathan, an ordinary guy with magical powers, manages to find meaning in his ordinary life. He fights the oligarchy.

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

Flora Zampello, an attorney and film director, turns into a gargoyle when she gets angry. How can she morph this trait into a talent that helps her win cases?

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

In part two of this screenplay, Sofia examines her relationship with Fausto and decides whether his criminal activity will prevent them from staying together. Fausto owns the pastry shop where she works; he's a great boss. Sofia worries that the drugs he is selling will harm her granddaughter, Lorenza.

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Cavi di Lavagna, Italy: Sofia Peccora, a motorcycle mechanic, mourning the death of her adult son, Davide, from a drug overdose three years earlier. Her best friend, Carmen, convinces her to take a job at the local cafe, Pasticceria Fausto, as a pastry chef. Sofia accepts and quickly falls for the owner, Fausto, who turns out to be a criminal boss. Sofia and Fausto begin an affair, despite the reservations of her friends and her adult daughter, Paola. Fausto's role as a drug dealer threatens their relationship.

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With Bobbert back in the U.S. from the commune in Mexico, Marge and her new friend, Agnes, get sick of Bobbert's company pretty quickly and her constant stories about mezcal and the mezcalẽra, Carmen. When will Bobbert return to the commune? When can Agnes and Marge be alone?

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Bobbert, busy on the commune helping Oliver, Peebles and the gang in Oaxaca, still misses Marge. What can she do, with Marge living in Alabama, fighting the military regime? Bobbert feels torn between two worlds as she helps make mezcal and cheers up the team at Thanksgiving by playing the trombone.

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Dissatisfied with life on a compound in Mexico, Marge and Honey drive back to Alabama. Once there, Honey connects with Diesel Tedesco, and Marge, happy to be home, joins a group of Democratic Socialists.

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Fearful after Lavinia gets arrested for voicing an opinion on her podcast, Marge, Bobert, and Celedine prepare to escape to Oaxaca, Mexico. Peebles and Oliver are already there building a homestead. Will they make it? Will Marge have the courage to leave her home in Alabama?

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Tree specialists Oliver and Peebles meet at a screening of the LGBTQ film Passages. Although Oliver is married to a woman, the only real obstacle that stands in the way of their relationship is Peebles' mother, Marge, whose house he shares. Oliver proposes a solution that suits everybody.

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Sabrina and Jennifer, inventors and schemers, continue to sneak Sabrina's stories and novels to the  "recommended" pile of the New York publishing office of Jennifer's cousin: Whitaker, Smith, and Outlaw. Things are going well until the receptionist, Muffy Militello, discovers their secret: invisible cloth. Now Muffy wants in on the action.

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After inventing an invisibility cloak and regularly robbing neighborhood businesses to support her writing habit, Sabrina Strega gets discovered by local bookstore owner Jennifer Outlaw, large and opinionated. Together they decide to use the cloak to help them both achieve their dreams. As everybody smart knows - it's better to dream small.

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After breaking up with her girlfriend, Carmen visits her husband, Suresh, in North Carolina. Suresh creates a virtual service animal - Ganesh the elephant - to help Carmen deal with people. But is Suresh really pulling the strings?

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Alberto and Domenica Castro once again see the ghost, Frederick Hay, who returns to their modern-day farm from 1851 on his way to Canada to escape the Fugitive Slave Act. Nobody is sure they believe in ghosts, especially not Frederick.

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Overwhelmed by the New State and its anti-conservation efforts, Giovanna and her friend Todd start a new church - St. Turtle. Giovanna's mother, Carmen, returns to Alabama from exile in New Mexico to tell them how to do it.

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Laura, Marco, and Dante talk about First Amendment rights and their hopes about saving and protecting these rights in the future. They read two blogs from March 2020 - A Journal of the Coronavirus Year - that discuss Italian names and a trip to Cuba.

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When Carmen's friend, Suresh, a computer scientist, asks her to marry him for citizenship reasons, Carmen agrees. Although Carmen is gay, their marriage flourishes, due to distance, humor, and the help of robot companions.

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Tabitha, whose father is an obscenely famous British actor, reflects on her crazy childhood and her eccentric family. At university, she meets Amadou, who is a student from Mali.

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

Laura, Dante, and Marco read a short Halloween screenplay about cats who may be magic and who definitely ruin the house of Alice the Italian Witch.

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

Attorney Carmen decides to teach her lunch group a lesson. Harry, Cecil, and Alberto must understand that women are people, too, and that everyone needs to work together to fight climate change and inequality. Carmen gives them Dream Juice -- a mixture of honey and wasp juice. The men have hallucinations that make their worst dreams come true, right inside their favorite cafe.

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As Arturo prepares Robotica to become a home health aide, he enlists his wife, Lidia, to train the robot while she prepares Thanksgiving dinner. Robotica, who understands humans by reading their cell phones, makes mistakes that could jeopardize Arturo's research and his marriage. Maybe he needs his family more than he thinks.

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It's time to film Roller Derby Fiends. With director Grandma being obnoxious on the set, she needs a production assistant by her side to keep her from alienating everyone, including granddaughter, Beatrice. The answer is Robotica, until the cellphone-reading robot gets in the way of an important new friendship.

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In this final episode, we find out who killed Dr. Eddie Flanders, and why.

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Laura, Dante, and Marco read part two of the dark comedy screenplay, Zoom HIt, about attorney Silvia Moretti and her friends, who travel to Charleston, South Carolina to help the police discover who killed Dr. Eddie Flanders during a Zoom call.

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During a friendly midnight Zoom call, attorney Silvia Moretti's doctor friend/ love interest (Dr. Eddie Flanders)  gets brutally murdered. At the request of the police, Silvia and her friends -- artist, Wyshonda, and paralegal/ entomologist, Lillian -- drive to Charleston, South Carolina to help the police find the killer. Is Silvia a suspect?

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Recently divorced Alberto Castro encounters a ghost at his Northern New York farm in the middle of winter when he feels lost in loneliness.

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

Tabitha, a witch and a bad poet, works at the Ballentine Public Library, where she tries to solve the problems she sees around her and on the news. Her boss, whom she loves, turns out to be gay.

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Laura and Dante read favorite blogs from December 2020 - "A Journal of the Coronavirus Year."

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

In this revised version of Grandma and Bea's travel story, we add more tension to the relationship between grandmother and granddaughter. What might be at stake is the future of the planet.

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When Grandma discovers that Beatrice may want to intern for a state senator, she proposes a trip to New Mexico so that Bea can look at nature and meet the Native American people who live there. Grandma hopes that Bea will gain a stronger respect for nature and the history of the land.

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Robin and Zen, reunited for a week of love in Austin, Texas, discover some witches partying next door. After joining the party, they discover that the witches can teach them something about love and filmmaking.

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Grandma tries to subvert suburban life and teach her granddaughter, Beatrice, that revenge is unnecessary. But the lesson goes awry when the school starts banning books, and Grandma's son, Alberto, tries running for office.

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With Carmen back in town, Brenda has trouble deciding between the nerdy Reddi Read and her old girlfriend, Carmen. Arturo, the computer scientist, gives Robotica, the new companion he has invented, a sense of smell to match Brenda's. This way she can smell her way to a decision.

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As Brenda mourns the loss of Carmen (who has left her for another woman), outrageous computer scientist Arturo offers to let Brenda test a new robot-companion -- Robotica. Unfortunately, Robotica reads people's cell phones and embarrasses Brenda a lot.
 

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Stefano and Renata decide to bring their young family on a day trip to Portofino. Can they withstand the tour of Castello Brown, teeming with tourists, without turning into animals?

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In the year 2075, Carmen travels by transport machine, virtually and materially, to visit Jerry Sizemore, a comedian, and work with him on material for his comedy stand-up show.

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Left alone with his small petulant daughter, Stefano finds himself falling for Barbara, who owns the bottega next door to his farinata place on the Italian Riviera. But a visit to the mountains on his day off sets things right.

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The Christmas Cranks - Arturo, Brenda, Reddi, Carmen, and Oleander - attend a women's rights march on the steps of the South Carolina Statehouse. Arturo deals with Oleander hanging out with a new female friend - Dulce Smith. Arturo's granddaughter, Laura, gives him advice.

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When deciding about childcare, and whether aunts and their girlfriends are the best teachers, Stefano and Renata consult a coven of witches, at the insistence of aunt Elena. Is the coven prejudiced in favor of the strong female babysitters?

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Arturo and Oleander find each other at the beach, after the Cranks read aloud a play about the heretic Giordano Bruno.

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

The Christmas Cranks - a group of university professor friends - put on a play, take an August break at the beach, and fall in love. They also buy Christmas ornaments at Walmart and make fun of the world.

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Inverness, a shelved librarian, retires early to South Carolina and finds new friends Hasan and Heather. Her friends clash with each other. What will happen at Hasan's family reunion? Will the mysterious caul surrounding Hasan disappear, or smother them all?

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Inverness, an out-of-work librarian, finds solace in South Carolina, where she is doing research on bugs. Inverness is lonely. But Heather, who helps her with research, is annoying and doesn't get along with Hasan, the new man in Inverness' life. On top of that, Hasan is surrounded by a mysterious caul. Will love, or insects, save the day?

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We return to Italy and find out whether Stefano, our 20-year-old hero, can survive the conflict between his mountain family and the beach community. Will his witchy sisters help him? Will his girlfriend, Claudia, agree to move with him to the beach? Will he turn into an animal?

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Tired of working at his family's restaurant as their personal wood chopper and butcher, Stefano leaves his home in the mountains of Northern Italy to work at a fancy restaurant on the beach. His parents and sisters try to discourage this move, and they may be right. Stefano's own demons stand in the way.

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Alice and Pooyan find out if the grotesque sea creature is there to help their family, or destroy them all. This story is also part of the Beach Encounters series.

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

Alice and Pooyan see problems develop in their marriage once their daughters leave home. Will the grotesque sea creature help them, or destroy them?

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Shauna and Cathy, a screenwriter and an actor who live together, continue their adventures in Hollywood. Who gets the upper hand here? Shauna, the screenwriter, or the evil producer, Cathy's ex-lover, David?

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Screenwriter Shauna plots with actor Cathy to get revenge on Cathy's producer boyfriend -- David Jabari, who calls himself "David Rosenberg." Then Shauna and Cathy move in together.

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After his wife dies, country musician Bullet turns to his friend, Tweed, for help restarting their band and advice on raising his two teenaged daughters.

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When Jorrie, a South Carolina railroad worker, breaks up with Albert, she decides to befriend Kayan, a Quick Way worker from Iran. They both enjoy Albert and his wayward behavior. They all meet for game night.

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As Avery faces medical school in Texas and getting married to a woman, he confronts his father, Justin, over Justin's gay lifestyle in Alabama.

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

Dash, a hairdresser, and Wendy, a video game developer, find love despite the protests, astonishment, and incredulity of the people around them.

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta

After his mother dies, nosy, horny neighbor Herman Smith teams up with the guy across the street, Joe Cavallerio, whose young child recently died.

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Restless, potty-brained attorney Cristina Ladri considers resorting to blackmail to get some fiction published.

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Josephine, the co-owner of a feminist bookstore, relates details of  her life and relationships to her son, Marco, who recently completed law school. Josephine partnered with both Salina and Glenn, and they all lived above the bookstore -- Lunatic Fringe.

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After her daughter, Hamish, moves to San Francisco to work, Sidney seeks solace with her close friends and lovers Rodolfo and Olympia, who are all living the good life in South Pasadena. Sidney wonders if she raised Hamish right.

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When Lamar's career as principal of a high school, and his family of four children put him in crisis, he turns to Resource Officer Guillermo Gomez for comfort.

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This is the second episode of my short story collection -- B is for Bisexual. Marco, Dante, and I recorded this second version while in Beaufort, SC.  In "Scintilla," two friends from high school reconnect as professional adults and rekindle a romance.

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Comedy teammates Robin and Zen reconnect in Austin, Texas during the coronavirus.

B is for Bisexual - short stories by Laura P. Valtorta