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Layers of Life by author and playwright Stephen Evans presents a thoughtful if fragmented view of a thoughtful if fragmented life. The author sketches a gentle life, filled with awareness of the world around him, fragile, diverse, beautiful, and joyful.

Everyone understands what it is like to be accountable to someone, but often we think of accountability as something punitive. Living Accountably defends the view that it is possible, under the right conditions to live accountably, welcoming accountability to those with proper standing, including being accountable to God (or some "higher power").

Monuments is a play in one act exploring the tragic life and remarkable mind of America's greatest philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. The play is set on a boat travelling down the Nile river.

The Laughing String collects author and playwright Stephen Evans' thoughts on writing and the writing life, both what inspires him and what makes him smile. The title comes from a poem by W. B. Yeats: "Bred to a harder thing Than Triumph, turn away And like a laughing string Whereon mad fingers play Amid a place of stone, Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult." Sometimes wry, sometimes opinionated, alway...

The Next Joy and the Next is a mythology the author uses to understand (insofar as possible, which isn't far) the reason for the life he has lived.

RURAL INDIANA - A PLACE WITH ACRES AND ACRES OF FARMLAND TO HIDE DEAD BODIES The rural Indiana landscape seems so bucolic, from the gently rolling hills of the south to the easy sway of cornfields in the north. Who knew those picturesque barns could hide criminal activity as well as livestock, or those rustic cemeteries be rife with murder victims as well as those who died of old-age? The members of the Speed City Sisters in Crime chapter, tha...

An "engaging modern-day fairy tale." -Kirkus Reviews Whose Beauty is Past Change may tell the story of a young girl who journeys through beautiful distractions to reach a fantastic undersea realm from which she may never return. Or it may tell the story of a grieving poet imagining a beautiful life for a daughter lost to the sea. Or perhaps, both. At sunset in Key West, twelve-year-old Lissa falls into the gulf and is swept out along a gold...

In this third act of the saga of Lena Grant and her (definitely) ex-law partner and (possibly) ex-husband Nick Ward, the illness of a beloved pet brings Lena home to Minneapolis in a panic, worried both about both the aging wolfhound and her mentally unstable ex-husband. But she is the one who falls into a deep depression, and this time Nick is the caregiver. And his ingenious and delusional mind has envisioned a fitting tribute to Wolfram, an...

Set in July 1847, Solid Seasons imagines an encounter by Henry David Thoreau with his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson in Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. Emerson attempts to convince Thoreau to leave Walden, while Thoreau struggles to maintain his personal and creative independence. Note: The play is also incorporated into the full-length version of the play Monuments. Characters: 2 Set: Single (Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond) Approximate Runnin...

The Visitation Quartet collections four plays by Stephen Evans. The Ghost Writer, filled with gems from Shakespeare's works and with a lighthearted style reminiscent of classic Broadway comedies, is a fast-paced, funny play that explores the spirit of creativity both mortal and immortal. In Monuments, an aging Ralph Waldo Emerson, voyaging down the Nile river with his daughter, struggles with memory and memories. In Tourists, audiences ...

Monuments is a play in one act exploring the tragic life and remarkable mind of America's greatest philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. In July of 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson's house in Concord, Massachusetts, caught fire. His many admirers raised money for repairs, and sent the aging sage on a journey across the ocean while those repairs were being made. At the time of this voyage, Emerson was one the most famous Americans, and likely the mo...

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In Stephen Evans' The Ghost Writer, playwright Michael and producer Harry are hiding in the theater to avoid the audiences who saw their last opening (and closing) night. Their lawyer Kate - Michael's current and Harry's former partner - sees in their latest failure a chance to draw Michael away from the crass influence of Harry and unleash his artistic potential. But Harry has already hatched his next scheme - Michael will channel a play from...

A road-tripping travel memoir that's graced with humor, adventure, and wisdom." -Foreword Clarion Reviews A Transcendental Journey is the insightful and often humorous account of playwright and author Stephen Evans' journey across America, exploring America and American Transcendental Philosophy. Ralph Waldo Emerson's life, thought, and influence is explored through five of his most important essays. These famous works transform the journey,...

Sonets from the Chesapeke is a collection of American sonets by poet, playwright, and author Stephen Evans. An American sonet is a verse form with 12 lines, two stanzas of five lines each and one final couplet.

An anapestic history of western philosophy. Limerositus is a collection of limericks inspired by famous philosophers, including: Arendt, Aristotle, Aurelius, Bentham, Bergson, Berkeley, Camus, Chomsky, Confucius, de Beauvoir, Derrida, Dewey, Emerson, Epictetus, Epimenides, Evans, Foucault, Gödel, Hegel, Hume, Husserl, Langer, Leibniz, Kant, Locke, James, Kierkegaard, Mill, Nietzsche, Parmenides, Pierce, Plato, Pythagoras, Rand, Rousseau, R...

Limerosity is a collection of limericks inspired by literary figures, including:Aeschylus, Beckett, Browning (E B), Browning (Robert), Cervantes, Chaucer, Cummings, Dante, Dickinson, Eliot (George), Eliot (T S), Euripides, Evans, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Frost, Goethe, Hardy, Hemingway, Homer, Joyce, Keats, Millay, Milne, Milton, Moliere, Moliere (Again), Montaigne, Parker, Pinter, Plath, Rossetti (Christina), Rossetti (Dante), Shakespeare, Shaw,...

In Stephen Evans' play Spooky Action at a Distance, a despondent physicist chooses to exit this universe in a Las Vegas casino hotel room. In the midst of the attempt, he is interrupted by an exotic dancer in an angel costume. Instead of talking him out of suicide, she decides to join him. And when the effort fails for them both, has a miracle occurred? What are the odds? Spooky Action at a Distance is a comedy in three acts with two ch...

In Stephen Evans' play Tourists, audiences encounter three sets of characters on their own unique journeys.In A Visitor to your Planet, a boatman working on a beach encounters an alien life-form investigating extinction events.In Arc, ex-lovers meet a a train station after a funeral and wonder if it is too late for one more change of direction. In No Surprise, a person enters the realm of death and discovers the travel agent for the afterlife....

The Visitation Quartet collections four plays by Stephen Evans. The Ghost Writer, filled with gems from Shakespeare's works and with a lighthearted style reminiscent of classic Broadway comedies, is a fast-paced, funny play that explores the spirit of creativity both mortal and immortal. In Monuments, an aging Ralph Waldo Emerson, voyaging down the Nile river with his daughter, struggles with memory and memories. In Tourists, audiences ...