The PlayFinder™

The action is set in the mechanized control room of a modern feedlot, a sterile, computerized place which resembles the flight deck of a rocket ship. Four men, three swaggering cowboys and a sensitive young college student, are about to begin their night's vigil, tending the dials and gauges that regulate the flow of feed to the cattle pens below. One of the cowboys, a super-macho Vietnam veteran named Billy Fred, is convinced that Gene, the college boy, is gay, and while the o... Read more

The setting is an icy ledge high up on K2, the world's second highest mountain. Two climbers, Taylor and Harold, are stranded at 27,000 feet, and Harold has suffered a broken leg in their precipitous descent. They have also lost one of their ropes, and the remaining one is neither long or strong enough to serve as a sling to lower Harold to the next ledge. As Taylor climbs back up the mountain in an attempt to recover the other rope the two men keep up a running conversation wh... Read more