George Smith Stories and Plays

Spaceship to Mars is written from the perspective of an astronaut on a long journey to Mars. Alaskan Goodbye is a play about a mud engineer and his family in Alaska. At the Zoo with Billy is a political play set in the Houston Zoo. No More Ice, Ice, Baby is a play about global warming set in a bar at the Four Seasons Hotel. Squirrel 35 is a little story about the atavistic need to shoot squirrels. The Ugly Duckling, Obamacare is Hans Christian Andersen’s famous story juxtaposed against a political conversation about health care on a cruise ship in the Baltic. Yticirtcele is a short play about something that both is, and isn’t, what it seems. Enjoy!