THE LYONS' DEN -- a feature script and a two-act play about an author who just wants to take a shower and start writing.

Daniel Bettancourt knew exactly how to get Tad back -- bet him he could rework eight awful scripts in 36 hours so Tad could pitch them to a cable network to get backing .  Daniel’s payoff?  A week in Bermuda, alone with Tad to rebuild their relationship.  Of course, if he lost he’d lose a hundred-thousand dollars and Tad forever, but Daniel was a successful author with several books to his name, all following a slick detective named Ace Shostakovich, and the scripts were adaptations of his books.  So if he started work at midnight, Saturday, and wrote straight through to 6am, Monday, he knew he’d have the scripts in decent shape and back in time for a meeting with the network at noon.  Problem was, Ace didn’t trust Tad -- and never mind Ace was just a fictional character only Daniel could see and talk to; if he weren’t keen on the idea, it would be hard to put across.  But Daniel had a plan.

First, he went to The Lyons’ Den, Tad’s isolated mountain cabin in upstate New York, to be away from all distractions and make certain Tad couldn’t mess with him.  Then to allay Ace’s suspicions, he had the caretaker leave him the only key.  So what could go wrong?

Well...he picked the very night the cabin was to be used for a political payoff, and suddenly he was –

1 guy with

2 boys and

3 really mean dudes as

4 people saw that he was

5 minutes in the nude and

6 guns had too much fun in chasing after number 1 since

7 keys’re all it takes to get you past the Lyons’ gates ‘cause

8 hundred-thousand is the money that’s the mayor’s biz, but

9 won’t be comin’ ‘round unless the sheriff comes to town!

And that’s just between midnight and 2am…which is plenty of time for mystery, suspense, revenge, murder, sex, betrayal, fist-fights, a hot shower, romance and more than just a hint of paranoid-schizophrenia.

But what else could you expect from a writer?