Joseph John Schirle

A 'failed' musician tries to save the souls of at-risk youth and San Quentin prisoners and along the way discovers the true gift of his music...and the deeper meaning of freedom.

妻に先立たれ、女子高生の娘マーゴットと２人暮らしのデビッド。ある日、勉強会に行ったはずのマーゴットが行方不明なことに気づく。警察に失踪届を出したデビッドは、担当刑事のヴィックとともに、マーゴットのパソコンにログインし、彼女の手がかりを求めてＳＮＳを探り始める。するとそこには、デビッドの知らないもう一人のマーゴットの姿があった。動揺しつつも、さらにマーゴットのＳＮＳを探っていくデビッドだったが…。

A grumpy old sailor wants only to finish building his boat so he can set out to sea. But from local officals to troubled fosters kid, the world keeps intervening to test his determination to make something of his golden years.

When an Asian American girl from the wrong side of the tracks is accepted by a prestigious university, she finds that her academic prowess can be put to lucrative use.

JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...

人間の子どもたちを怖がらせ、その悲鳴をエネルギー源として用いるモンスターの世界。そこに暮らすモンスター青年マイクは、明朗活発でポジティブな思考の持ち主だったが、仲間よりも体が小さくてルックスもかわいいことに劣等感を抱いていた。これでは子どもたちを絶叫させる“恐がらせ屋”にはなれないと、世界中のモンスターが憧れを抱く名門大学「モンスターズ・ユニバーシティ」に入学。期待に胸を膨らませる彼だが、そこにはサリーを筆頭に大きくて姿が恐ろしい“恐がらせ屋”のエリート候補生があふれていた。