Decency, mankind, and humility don’t live on the Darkside. Seattle’s underbelly inside a darker, grimmer upcoming plays web host to a assortment of novellas, each discovering how people end up in that forsaken hellhole-and what they’re ready to do to show they belong.

Street Doc

Away from home for a criminal offense he committed, Hideo has only the top on his back and thoughts of a beautiful wife, an excellent job, and a special view from his bedroom. The once-respected cosmetic surgeon has to learn to go on the roads of about Darkside Seattle: The Support Staff Darkside Seattle-a place no-one sane really wants to move and no one trapped there can leave.

Hideo’s skills will keep others alive, but he’s never dodged bullets before. The near future looks grim.

Fixer

Victoria Godhand, the unflinching main negotiator on her behalf father’s megacorp, wants a lot of things. Respect tops the list.

Ross Lynch, her father’s handpicked successor and the business’s COO, also wants a lot of things. Victoria tops the list.

If she can’t have what she wants, neither can he. Victoria would rather rot in jail-and it may come to that.

Mechanic

Isabella Acosta has lived in the barrio fifty percent of the Darkside her whole life-no cops, no laws, no way out.

Respected for making it through such a long time, Isabella helps to keep her head straight down and doesn’t make waves-until someone puts a gun to her nephew’s head, that is. Now, she’ll do anything to protect the guy she helped her brother raise-anything.