Inches of Time

Gene Fiskin’s oblique view of an odd world. His stories range from efforts to capture a moment of time, to ladies tasting words and seeing them in colors. You will meet an unkempt wretch seeking to best the Devil; and share a visit with the last man on Earth. Here too, are the complaints of a Guardian Angel; the art of a Jewish genie; and a tortured place of forgetting. Stories touched with humor, anguish, and peculiar humanity. From his more than 40 short plays, Fiskin presents two, one of which appears in "The Best American Short Plays of 2011-2012.” Enjoy.