Open All Night and Other Tales

Max and the gang do their best to get the 4TH STREET DINER ready for a big inspection, but the fix is in, and nothing they do may make any difference! Chili with crackers, enemies with ambition, and nanobots with a twist! Get yourself a coffee and danish while you can still can!

CARBORNARI'S ups the ante, with vandalism and outright sabotage! Add to that, a comprehensive and mandatory inspection of the DINER, and Max is feeling the heat! Is it time for him to get out of the kitchen?

After a bit of a tussle with the owners and employees of CARBORNARI'S RISORANTE ITALIANO across the street, Max learns that the fix is in! He and his crew of 4TH STREET DINER misfits have to come up with a plan to win the licensing slot fast, or lose everything!

The 4TH STREET DINER, on "Souza Station", finds itself in a food war with an Italian eatery across the street, and tempers are flaring! With a diabolical power couple making their move, and a hired thug pushing people around, Max Bru'llo finds himself battling for the very survival of his restaurant!

10-year old Trapper has gotten separated from his kindly neighbor during a crisis, and might just miss the last shuttle out. But when he meets someone who needs more help than he does, he finds himself at the center of a whole lot of action! A very short dramatized tale (with sound effects and such), about gaining a little perspective when you need it the most.

A man might tell himself anything in order to get by, and he might look back on the past with little or no regret. But the past isn't always as dead and gone as it seems, and no one gets out unscathed. Boris Smirkoff is enjoying a quiet moment in the park when a not-so-gentle reminder of his personal history pays a visit. What kind of bargain does a man make with his own conscience, when there's nowhere to hide but in the stories he tells himself?

An emergency wake-up from cryogenic sleep drops Ejoq Dosantos right in the middle of trouble. With a wicked freeze-tube hangover, a boat packed to the bulkheads with passengers (yet eerily empty for all that), and a shady crew that knows far more than they're telling, he has to hit the deck running -- or, at least, shuffling -- before a trio of armed vessels, waiting in ambush, cuts them all to pieces!

A sixteen year old girl, living on a space station, finds herself at the crossroads of her life. Tallu B'teni needs a new direction, and her decisions will affect everything she knows.