Bryan Starchman
BRYAN STARCHMAN graduated from UCLA with a BA in English and taught high school literature, drama, and film studies in Mariposa, CA for 20 years. His 25 plays have been produced over 3000 times in all 50 states and 15 countries. Since 2020 his short fiction has been featured in The Saturday Evening Post and in the literary journals After Dinner Conversation, In Parentheses, Scribble, Apricity, The Write City Magazine, Some Scripts, The Olive Tree Review, New Plains Review, Avalon Literary Review, The Good Life Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Fox Paw, 100 Word Story, and Litro. In May 2025 he will complete his Master’s in Writing from Johns Hopkins. He now teaches English at Chatham High School and lives with his wife and best friend Geraldine in both Bloomfield, New Jersey and Achill Island, Ireland.
Displaced: An Animal Adventure
Comedy by Bryan Starchman
35 pages
3 m, 1 w, 16 flexible
A small California town is under mandatory evacuation as a huge wild fire threatens its citizens, their homes, and the surrounding forest. Just as the family is about to leave, their unsuspecting dogs Loony and Max are tricked by Prince, the evil cat. Following the cat’s sinister advice, the sweet but gullible dogs disappear to avoid the vet and to find the barbecue sausages, leaving the family no choice but to drive off without them. During their big adventure to find their family again, the dogs journey through the forest where they encounter pushy raccoons...