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Catherine MacLeod
5.0 out of 5 stars Stories of Terrible Hope
Reviewed in Canada on July 5, 2024

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All the stories in "Bishop Rider Lives" tell the truth. Some of them hit a little too hard, but in Bishop Rider's world too hard is just right.

So is Rob Hart's "Bless This Mess," the story of a woman with deep and hard-won insight.

Peter O'Keefe's "By Their Works You Will Know Them" is a truly twisted whodunnit. You're not sure who's doing what to whom or why. But be assured justice will be served--and it will be delicious.

If you think it's impossible to feel horror and joy at the same time, Laurel Hightower's "Sanctity" will prove you wrong.

In the amazingly dark "Feed the Machine" Nick Kolakowski just says what we're all thinking.

It's said that the first thing a writer needs to learn is to not look away from the truth. The fifteen writers in "Bishop Rider Lives" have not only learned that lesson but are willing to pass it on.

A Brief Peculiar History of Detroit is a collection of photo essays and texts created by artists and writers who have journeyed beyond Detroit's fading edifices of commerce and industry to become the archeologists of a lost city and its people. Their reports from the scattered sites of their excavations reveal compact, shimmering facets of countless lives lived--well and not so well--by the people who have called this city home. The artifacts recovered are the images, the stories, and the memories contained in these pages. 

It's time to put some of the people who built this city back into the picture.

My short stories have appeared in various literary and online journals, including The Wayne Literary Review, Thoughtful Dog, Little Patuxent Review, and Moss Piglet. My full-length play "The Algiers Motel" received staged readings at the Stage Left Ensemble Theatre and Chicago Dramatists, among others. My short play "Brotherhood of Man" was a finalist for the Humana Theatre Festival's Heideman Award.

Script writer for the syndicated anthology program "Tales From the Darkside." Completed feature writing assignments for a variety of Hollywood companies, including Imagine Entertainment/Universal Studios, Full Moon Studios, and Fries Entertainment. Optioned original feature length screenplays to numerous producers and independent filmmakers, including Bill Tietler (Mr. Holland's Opus, Jumanji), Lyndon Chubbuck (The War Bride) and Al Ruddy (The Godfather, Walker Texas Ranger, Hogan's Heroes).

Worked with various German producers, including Hamburg Film Studios and the RTL Network, to develop movies for the German market."Die Sexfalle" ("The Sex Trap"), a movie-of-the-week conceived and written for German television, was one of the highest rated productions of the 1997 German television season.