Zoom Shorts

- Season 2

(2021)

Steve refuses to let age or inexperience quench his enthusiasm as he embarks on a new career as a stand-up comic. He practices at home, honing his craft, and decides to enlist the help of a friend, Roweena, who is a successful, established stand-up. He asks for her honest opinion about the merits of his material. Will she feel free to express how she truly feels, or will she be forced to wear a dutiful smile frozen on her face? Does Steve have what it takes to actually soar or will he crash and burn? Roweena has some ideas about how to approach this delicate subject, ...

Three Grumpy Guys chew the fat around the potbellied stove of zoom. Hunter (Grumpy Guy #1) reviews his life from his salad days to the sunset years, from unbridled passion to forgotten passwords, of going from getting it up to not being able to get up. Val (Grumpy Guy #2) recounts the threats to his health, not having the old fire in the belly, no longer liking the cold, and feeling just plain tuckered out. Life has become a one-way street to a dead end. Charlie (Grumpy Guy #3) hears their pain, but he has journeyed on-first to Pilates and now to Shibari. No longer ...

Sofia and Daniel are the perfect couple. Both are budding professional photographers, living their dream in blissful success, loving it, and loving each other even more. They see life through that very special artist's lens, where reality melts with fantasy, and anything is possible. When an unexpected twist of fate threatens to blast a hole in their happy, secure relationship, both are challenged to the core. Separated physically due to work by an ocean, they are also oceans away emotionally about the solution to their problem. Some choices are life changing and this...

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Clarissa is a voice over artist. And that would be fine, except she's also invisible. In a world where all voice over artists have to trade existing in the physical realm for having a lucrative voice over career, Clarissa struggles with her decision every day. She misses people being able to see her facial expressions. She misses being able to see her two daughters-- her daughters, who even before her choice, never really "saw" her. Clarissa calls her agent to say she wants out of the game. But her agent doesn't take the news well. Will Clarissa get her body back? Or ...

It was love, alright. The kind that hits you over the head and knocks you off your feet. It didn't matter that Jim and Nadia came from opposite sides of the world. It wasn't a problem that they both had established careers in their dream jobs in their own country. This was bigger. It was nothing less than fate that thrust them together. It's that indescribable, undeniable natural chemistry between two people that has kept the relationship going, even though they are now many miles apart. They've worked these many months to keep alive the fire that first sparked ...

Doris Wurtzboef, otherwise known as Epiphany Marlowe, the lively, young grand dame of The Roaring Twenties chapter of a Live Action Role Playing social media site, has spent the last two years designing her dream LARP extravaganza. Everything is coming together perfectly as she begins to gather her LARPING guests, characters she has carefully picked from the many she's interviewed to play the roles she has created. However, something is happening which threatens to ruin her LARPING lavish party and murder mystery. She hopes Clara, her good friend and beguiling 1920s ...