Thanksgiving is a time when families get together to eat good food and share in the spirit of thankfulness. That's of course, a best case scenario. Some families are so tangled in a web of drama from financial issues, relationships, and so on that lead to big blow outs or worse, long awkward silences. This is the story of one of those families.

Neil is a painter and graphic designer. On a morning just like any other morning his girlfriend Amanda leaves him and moves out of their house (don't worry, it's a rental.) That morning Neil tries to cope as best he knows how, but in a strange turn of events he ends up shooting back a glass of bleach. He wakes up to suicide watch and court appointed therapy as well as the empty void Amanda left. Now Neil has to decide what he can do to feel better about himself. Should he get Amanda back? Make his old friends like him again? Confront his estranged father? Eat a ton of Chinese food? Or maybe he should just finish his latest goddamned painting. Will he figure it out? Well you better hope so.

Valarie, a tough girl trying to repress her sadistic nature, meets Andy at the party of a friend. Andy offers her work with his lock-smith business, which reveals itself to be more of a dodgy money lending venture. When Valarie realizes the true nature of the business she offers her own brand of vicious help in squaring accounts with unsavory clients. During a job her partner kills an old friend in cold blood and she finds herself exacting brutal vengeance on her former employers. Written by kwedgwood@hotmail.com