Dry

Three different scenarios, intercut, all using the same words but with very different meanings. A corrupt cop is more interested in the money on the...

A student misplaces his phone and must race across campus to find it.

Natalie and Adam attempt to save their failing relationship through a climbing trip in the wilderness. It’s said that nature is healing, but...

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But pushing on the walls distorts the room in various...

The short musical All my life is a love story that takes place over many years. After 50 years, Maria arrives with her husband at the...

Mae and Gemma spend one last night together knowing that, in the morning, their relationship will be over. Mae struggles to get through to Gemma, who...

Haunted by flooding memories of their parents' verbal abuse, an insecure person decides to stop reflecting and start living the life they never knew...

A woman who has been watching her next door neighbor for some time develops an intense affection for her neighbor's cat. This love will eventually...

In a society on the brink of collapse due to climate change, a woman grapples with the psychological effects of an unnatural existence. Cut off from...

When a circus trio have a particularly disastrous show, Mandy the Acrobat must decide whether to run away from the circus, or to stay and help her...

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces.