Travelling Light

A nebbish flees the city and takes to the road, where he falls in with a a good-natured pair of veteran travelers, hitchhikers, and minor con-men. They leech him of his money and possessions, in exchange for levity, self-confidence, and lessons in travelling light -- until, in solving a transportation problem, he goes too far, stealing a car and committing assault in the process.

Flight of the Silver Lady

A veteran aircrew steals the WWII B-25 bomber "Silver Lady" from the Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon, and flies it to the White House to deliver a message: a needless war that bankrupts us at home is not the freedom we fought for.

First Life

Faced with bankruptcy when corn prices drop (again), Buttermilk Flinty turns his farm into a rehab center for tech addicts, where, deprived of gaming consoles, cell phones, and even email, they're forced to give up the virtual and get back to the real. It's more fun than they think, but a group of hardcore users won't give up without a fight.

Flipping Out

Rejected by every college to which he applied, Luke, a small-town kid working at the Pig-in-a-Poke diner, decides to become the fastest short-order cook in the world -- a quest that takes him to the Short Order World Championships, where he must find the confidence to face down the ruthless, batter-spoiling, grease-bombing, dirty-trick-playing reigning champ, Seamus McNasty, in the Unlimited Breakfast Cookoff.

On the River

A family living in a town straddling the US-Canadian border is torn in two when the US threatens war with its northern neighbor over water rights to irrigate its arid West. Laura and John, caught on the fault line, struggle to hold together a fracturing community with the love they hold for each other, even as John is called up by the US military, and Laura is tasked with providing the Canadians with intelligence on his actions.

Beyond the Green Zone

Convinced that the Administration neither knows nor cares how bad the situation is on the ground in his security sector, a rogue Army Colonel abducts an official from the Green Zone, and opens his eyes to the horrors outside; but the official's corporate connections, working in reconstruction, will do anything to keep the truth from getting out.

The Devil Next Door

Janine, 39, single mother of two, haunted by nightmares, comes to believe that her next door neighbor is the devil; but when the school nurse discloses bruising around her children's genitals, the truth may be worse -- and harder to accept -- especially when someone claiming to be the real Devil shows up, and proposes a solution.

Walk on Water

A lifelong atheist has visions of God incarnate throwing himself from the observation deck of the Empire State Building, surrounded in light -- visions so compelling that he's driven to try the same thing. Believing that he's found a path to divinity, he gathers a cult of followers, and together they set off to try it again -- this time, over Niagara Falls.

The Ghost of Little Bend

The sole survivor of a shipwreck wanders the Northwest, unable to remember who he is or how he go there, until he walks in on his own memorial service; but, even when he makes himself known, no one thinks he's alive: having grieved him and given him up for dead, they believe him to be a ghost.

service bulletin

This is a service bulletin, not a logline.

I'm flying out to Portland, Oregon today for a bike trip that will take me down the Pacific Coast to San Francisco, then east by train to Denver, for my fiancee's brother's wedding on October 5th. According to my cell carrier's coverage maps, I'll have minimal data connectivity along much of my route, so there may be occasional lapses in posting.

I'll be out on my own on a touring bike, doing some hill-climbing, soul-searching, and undergoing my first camping experiences, so new loglines, when available, should be pleasantly weird. I hope you'll stay tuned.

- Adam

The Minuteman

At 32, Jack has overcome most of the challenges of adulthood, except the premature ejaculation that has scuttled his every attempt at love. Now he's met the woman of his dreams, and must find something more distracting than baseball, more dour than nuns, if he wants to win her for more than a minute.

Twenty Questions

A group of high school friends reunites twenty years after graduation to spend two weeks at a beach house in the Hamptons, where they get to know each other's adult selves by playing twenty questions: animal, vegetable, or mineral; arriviste, vagrant, or murderer.

The Soul of a Guitar

Ray, a legendary builder of custom guitars, disillusioned with hard work and little profit, wants to sell his practice to finance his retirement. No one who can meet his asking price can match his standards, until he meets RAY II, a cyborg from Global Instruments. Now he must train RAY II in everything he knows -- but is mastery a matter of craftsmanship or of soul?

Permanent Link

Gilda Swanson is sentenced to death for assaulting her sister -- twenty eight years ago, just after privacy ended, and total surveillance began. If she wants to stay alive, she has to find a way past the Core of Justice, a global judicial WAN whose word is law, and get to her sister, whose forgiveness is her only hope.

The Laughter of Matthew Forrest

The one rich man in an town in Maine learns that he has six weeks to live. Believing himself childless, he promises all his property to the first man who can make him laugh -- which he has not done in fifty-seven years.

Mom and Apple Pie

A professional mother and her goth daughter drive from New York back to the Georgia countryside, to get Grandma's recipe for apple pie before she passes away, and to find out when that's going to happen; but not only is Grammy alive and kicking, she's got a girlfriend.

Clothes Make the Man

When he commissions a bespoke suit from a voodoo tailor, Rob Marks rapidly climbs the ladder of business success. But the suit gets under his skin, and makes him as acquisitive of his competitors as a zombie is of human flesh -- successful, until with a wild, rapacious scheme he goes too far, and only his dying humanity can save him, if it's worth saving.

In Silicon Valley, No One Hears You Scream

Jeremy, 29, a rising star of high-tech, breaks his contract's non-compete clause -- the one that says, "Violation may result in physical termination" -- when he leaves a major Internet company to head a startup. Now his lead programmer is on a bad trip, tech support in Mumbai is on strike, and his ex-employer's hit man is closing in.

Camping with Chloë

April, 16, leaves her emotionally-abusive home on a solo camping trip in Northern California. In her first brush with danger, she meets Chloë, a Park Ranger ten years her senior, who takes the girl under her wing. With Chloë, April has her first experiences in life and love, and learns that the world can judge as cruelly as her family; but through it all, April learns to love herself.

The Beacon

Pre-teens on both sides of the US-Mexican border in Texas light signal fires to each other as a sign of friendship; but when the Border Patrol douses the northern light on the grounds that it might be seen as a beacon for illegal immigration, Guillermo, on the Mexican side, sets out on a dangerous journey across the frontier to find out what became of his friend.

The Point

Sometimes, the unthinkable happens. When an accident causes a core breach at The Point, a nuclear power plant on the Hudson, three people -- a retired NYC fireman, living twenty miles upriver; his second wife, a Russian financial analyst, working in Midtown Manhattan; and his son, a cadet at West Point, across the river from the disaster -- must decide whether to fight the fire or flee for their lives -- if escape is possible at all.

The Last Drop

A Federal agent, downsized out of the Bureau, goes in on an espresso bar with the contract killer he turned informant, and was then assigned to protect; but in a town that isn't as peaceful as it looks, they each are given a new target: their #1 customer. The agent needs him alive; the killer needs him dead.

Night of the Bedbug

Giant bedbugs reach Brooklyn in an illicit shipment of Philippine hardwood, and get loose, draining their victims of blood, leaving dry husks behind, and breeding grotesquely in the New York night. An entomologist, an exterminator, and a city cop strive to contain them before they suck the city dry.