John Merriman

Human lives grappling with all the flavors of exstential despair intersect in a deadpan collage of comic suffering.

Openly gay Ernesto and closeted Gabe grapple with the sad tribulations of being gay in a small, working-class Texas town

After being dumped and fired on the same day, Marie, a maid, gets a job cleaning up after an overworked businessman and the aggressively messy ...

Working at a movie theater is fun, and that’s why Mason, Dennis, and Gabe have done it for years. But, those years of neglecting the world ...

Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She’s 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth ...