Escape and Evasion

Today, Alice experiences absent grief.

Photos are no longer enough to nourish the memory of happy days... Poems are powerless to preserve lost love... To return to the place of ecstasy is to return to Eden... With risks and perils...

A gay man has lost his lover to a fatal illness and is trying to go on with his life. If only his preparations for a night of dancing weren't constantly reminding him of the one that he lost.

A woman must come to terms with the loss of her chance to become a mom. The catalyst for her journey toward acceptance is the unwelcome apparition of a raven that relentlessly follows her. As it only reminds her of pain, she tries to get rid of it, but its persistence forces her to confront her emotions and ultimately guides her toward acceptance.

Some time in the future, East and West have stopped maintaining standing armies and nuclear weapons. Instead, to settle their differences they pit different teams of crack combat specialists against each other.

A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic.

A soldier who once saved the entire country is assigned to guard a genius child whose intellect is needed to foil the plans of an evil villain.

After a devastating loss, a woman clings to stability to avoid falling apart in front of her son. But as her perception begins to fracture, a presence settles at the edges of her reality, blurring the boundaries between the supernatural, the imagined, and the true cost of letting go.

When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.

When a grieving father is diagnosed with terminal cancer, his desperate attempts to reconnect with his estranged sons force them all to confront the weight of loss, love, and the inevitability of being left behind.

[poem_body_memory_voice] None of them belong to each other. All of them belong to themselves. A layered accumulation —___- a poetic exercise on relating*_on_love, migration, and mourning.