A GIANT UNSEEN HAND: and other plays depicting the far side of stress and anxiety

A Giant Unseen Hand is what forces the captain of a private jet full of billionaires to ditch her plane in the Atalntic. It goes to the bottom with the billionaires, but the crew survives and makes it to a desert isle. There they have to deal with drug addiction, pregnancy, childbirth, and the failure to live up to one other's expectations. When they are finally rescued, they learn that the world is in the grips of a global pandemic, global warming, and global meltdown in general. The madness sends them back to the island, not to regain their sanity, rather to settle a score.

The other four plays in this volume follow a similar format. In Chopping Heads, a man who makes a living by firing people becomes stranded on a desert isle for five years after his plane crashes on one such business trip. After he's rescued and returns to civilization, he's ready to really chop a few heads. No Ship in Sight presents an early twentieth-century passenger liner that might well be the Titanic. It leaves port with three men on a stag voyage, two women eager for the same adventure, their snobbish aunt, and a ship's officer out to cash in on the lot of them. Locked Down is the fate of an office worker trapped in an elevator but nobody realizes he's missing until a chance meeting of those near and dear to him. And Four Out of Three finds an investigative bureau stumped by an unseen sexual predator who may be one or all of them.