Becoming Buddha 

My life was, is and will probably always be painfully average.  I am the glistening standard of what it means to be normal.  My grades, my looks, my jobs, my partners, everything, dead-center in the median of ordinary.  Most of us are like that, at least that’s what Alex says.

Oh, Alex? He’s my best friend.

He’s attractive and cool and mysterious and says things that I’ve thought better than I could ever say them. See, I’ve always known my mediocrity and was trying to be ok with it. But Alex, he seems to think I’m capable of more. He’s my best friend and he’s anything but average. He’s also kind of a dick.

Coward

Sam is not a coward; he is a perfect coward.

He is depressed, lonely and all but set on living out his life in numb mediocrity. Lucy is a strange and powerful man with a bizarre and nefarious interest in Sammy. After a ‘chance’ meeting, Lucy gifts Sam with abilities far greater than anything his uncreative imagination could’ve ever dreamed of. For his part, Sam must learn to control this mysterious power by either rising above his weaknesses or giving in to them entirely.

The Furies

Fury is the last stop on the Quad-City express. It is a working-class town full of fiends and addicts, pimps and whores, thieves, and teenagers. The city preys on the weak and eats its young. As a group of friends from the Oxford projects enter their final year of high-school, they are all tempted by the seemingly infinite vices that threaten what seems like the most natural of progressions: becoming adults.