Toil and Trouble in Suburbia

As I looked out from the stage, I could see Jill glowering at me. The heat of her jealous anger raised the temperature of our community theater even more than the 90-degree summer heat outside.

My performance as the lead in the original musical celebrating our town theater company’s 10th anniversary would cause my raw performer’s nerves to race out of control under normal circumstances. Fears that my lifelong rival would seek revenge because the…