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September 18, 2004 @ M Bar
A Program of Original Stories Performed by their Authors
- Stephen Collins read Ace's Big Entrance
- Steven Cragg read The Burden
- Gary Dourdan read Rockstar
- Michael Kearns read Blood
- Dani Klein read Le Cinema Avec Mon Amour
- Margaret Smith read Mr. Right, an excerpt from her novel
- Stephen Tobolowsky read The Call
- Steve White read Untitled