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ERICK MERTZ
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Erick Mertz is a writer and film producer living in Porland Oregon, doing social work by day. He has written and co-produced the scripts for four short films, Too Many I's, A Housebuilder's Son, Old Tom and the forthcoming Closing Time. His work has appeared in a number of print outlets, magazines such as Vermillion Literary Project, Literary Potpouri and Stringtown. Currently he is working on his first novel, a feature length script and two longer plays entitled The Wedding Dress and Grooms, Not Servants. So much on his plate is a product of a unique and incurable mania.
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Ghost TrainsGhost Trains
Already slowed, a small town railroad has anounced that it is ceasing regular service, meaning the end of the line for a generation who relied on it. People on both sides of the tracks, like barkeeper Alex, town drunk Zelda and elderly Father Michael will feel the effects. What's left of old Main St. is already in shambles, but now that the trains are about to stop, things threaten to get even worse. In a bar close to the dock, railroad Vice President Frank Still reveals himself as carrying the message: the last train will be coming down the tracks soon. He is a villified man, but only doing his job. In this short play alliances are drawn and re-drawn, each turn coming with increasingly dangerous consequences. When the smoke clears, someone will be left to pick up the pieces, with the weight of a dying town on their shoulders.
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One Act Play Depot >>>, 2006 1894910591
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