Twenty Twenty: A Stories on Stage Sacramento Anthology

Twenty Twenty: A Stories on Stage Sacramento Anthology includes 43 stories inspired by the year 2020. Essays and short stories from Northern California authors are organized under the themes Masks, Resilience, Monsters, Kinship and Time, and touch many aspects of a year that proved catastrophic beyond anyone's imagining. The devastating toll of Covid-19, life under quarantine, the closure of schools and businesses, the murder of George Floyd, wildfires that swept the west, and more, all are touched on by diverse voices and points of view.
Special thanks to Karen Bender, Anita Felicelli, Joan Frank, Debra Gwartney, Sands Hall, Pamela Houston, Vanessa Hua, Joshua Mohr and Peter Orner, award-winning, acclaimed authors-and valued friends of Stories on Stage Sacramento-who graciously agreed to include their work in the anthology.TABLE OF CONTENTSWelcomeMASKS
The Shame Exchange Karen E. Bender
Letting Go Joshua Mohr
Dear Neighbor Deborah Pittman
Just Another Day at School Maia Paras Evrigenis
Almost a Year Shelley Blanton-Stroud
2020: the View From Suburbia Dorothy Rice
Breathing the Same Air Maureen O'Leary Wanket
Graduation 2020 Jan Haag
RESILIENCE
Stamina (Memorial Day Weekend, 2020) Pam HoustonBreaking the Green Wall Vanessa Hua
The Coffin Kevin Sharp
My Teeth Will Go On Diane Kallas
Can I Get an Amen? Renée Thompson
Half Moons in Wood Kellie Raines
Go-Bag Emilie DeFazio
A Life to Call My Own Margo Fowkes
MONSTERS
Mother, My Monster Anita Felicelli
Crossing the River Anara Guard
All in the Family Patti Santucci
Sourdough Sue Staats
A Letter to Our Loyal Customers Devara Berger
The Arsonist p joshua laskey
Toothless in Sacramento Hilary Abramson
KINSHIP
Faraway/Nearby Debra Gwartney
Surrendered Sands Hall
#girldad Elison Alcovendaz
Blue for Marylou Dawn Orosco
Life, Like Fire (2020) Marci Selva
The New Old House Rebecca Goodwin
Light . Death . Pandemic . Pia Sieroty
Renewal 2020 Marilyn Lanier
Brave Margo Fowkes
Before, During, After Marilyn Reynolds
TIME
Excerpt from Notes in the Margin (Part V) Peter Orner
Escape Artists: Our Year of Watching Joan Frank
Middlemarch Krista Minard
Mindfulness, 2020 Deborah Meltvedt
2020 Sondra Olson
The World at Golden Way—Our House in Quarantine Hilary King
Comets, Importing Change Margaret Young
2020, RIP The Box of Poems Tim McHargue
Moments Before Emma Hoppough
COVID, Chapter One Emilie DeFazio
Notes on the Authors
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