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Novelist, essayist, and playwright Elizabeth Dewberry writes unflinchingly about the traumas of abuse, betrayal, and manipulation inside marriages and families—but her stories never devolve into self-pity or preachy, moralizing pabulum. Her protagonists struggle mightily to escape from bad situations, not merely on the strength of an abstract notion that our purpose in life is to…

Wayne Harrel may truly be described as a “one-man show.” Actor, director, filmmaker, playwright — he performs all of these roles with gusto. Image is proud that it published an excerpt from Wayne’s outstanding play, Song of the Bow, which took on the difficult and painful subjects of Christianity, homosexuality, and AIDS — and did…