https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-burning-house daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/875a01c7-8ba3-4795-95e3-eab2f90e48e5/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Burning+House+Poster Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House, The Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608760480375-396C6H7NTTD17E95KKPF/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Burning+House+Play+Live+1 Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House, The Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608760463765-SOKUML0TIL3UTMAAX10F/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Burning+House+Play+Live+2 Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House, The Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608760446818-5H6BJ3Q0KKQ5FDM9EN7B/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Burning+House+Play+Live+3 Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House, The Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608760377279-G6WXZWET9T7B8C2NUYW4/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Burning+House+Play+Live+4 Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House, The Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608760428845-YVAVNO81JJPRKUVRXEYM/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Burning+House+Play+Live+5 Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House, The Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608760543852-BX0NGW9N55IJE5Y2I38W/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Burning+House+Play+Live+6 Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House, The Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608760344742-ZWBU8QG7BQ669WF2MJH2/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Burning+House+Play+Live+7 Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House, The Play https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-what-norman-saw daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/3036cbba-67db-4769-9f7f-722930ed9533/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+What+Norman+Saw+Play.png Joe Nelms Writer – What Norman Saw Play https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-the-last-time-i-died daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1609013663217-NAERHKCI2WBHAIZ3CRL8/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+The+Last+Time+I+Died+Book+Cover.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – The Last Time I Died Christian Franco is truly embracing the despair of divorce, doing nothing to slow the implosion of his career, friendships, and relationships. He camps out at bars and picks fights, finding that getting his ass kicked allows him his only meditative moments, something he explores with sardonic zeal. Nine years of his childhood are entirely repressed, a consequence of his father killing his mother when Christian was eight. But a single clear memory resurfaces when Christian is beaten to death in a bar brawl: a memory of his stoop in Brooklyn, his father in the back of a cop car, and his mother being wheeled away on a gurney. He is resuscitated, and he craves more memories. What follows is Christian's increasingly desperate means to kill himself and be revived, slowly piecing together snapshots from his childhood to understand how this rediscovered self-knowledge could make his wife come back. Alternating between heartbreaking memories of a happier time, Christian revels in the underbelly of New York City in a spectacular downward spiral. https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-formerly-fingerman daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1609015812412-FPXSO1NH9HZYU4Y8PUER/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Formerly+Fingerman+Book+Cover.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Formerly Fingerman Brad Fingerman was an art director in the glamorous world of New York advertising. He had the respect of his peers, a beautiful wife, and a bright future. That is, his future was bright before he spectacularly nuked his career, discovered his wife's infidelity, and witnessed a high-profile Mafia hit in a Midtown elevator. Now Brad's unemployed, divorced, and the government's key witness in a major murder trial. Except Brad didn't actually see the murder. So he lied, joined the Witness Protection Program, and entrusted his new identity to an FBI agent with her career on the make and a frighteningly committed bodyguard. Now Brad has to fake his way through the trial of the century and try to reassemble a meaningful life as his fellow witnesses are methodically assassinated. https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-burning-house-novel daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1609018090945-IS3OCARW67GRNT6DHPPV/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Burning+House+Book+Cover.png Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House Novel When I was 13, I saw a therapist for a couple of years. Five years after I stopped seeing her, she had a psychotic break and stalked my family across the country with the intention of killing us. That happened. Burning House is a fictionalized version of this event that asks the question What happens when the people we trust to help us do the opposite? The Story In a last-ditch effort to save his relationship, Trey, an emotionally guarded man, begs his frustrated fiancé Rebecca to listen to the shocking (and painfully honest) story behind his romantic issues, including his troubling relationship with a childhood therapist and the long-term effects she had on his adult life. But what Rebecca hears is a most unpredictable tale from the man she thought she knew so well. Burning House is a taut, twist-filled roller coaster of unrelenting tension that ratchets up the suspense with every unexpected turn and surprise raise of the emotional ante. Seamlessly weaving three interconnected stories from Trey’s life, Burning House creates a powerful portrait of a child at risk, a boy in recovery, and a man in love. https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-all-american-runt daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1609020868551-QI9OT29UVA241W9GGSII/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+All+American+Runt+Novel+Cover.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – All American Runt All American Runt is the dark yet ultimately heartwarming story of Roy, a lonely albino EMT who reconnects with the scar-faced ex-girlfriend who broke his heart years ago. https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-about daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-jabroni daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1609021341687-4IN6QPWLSFUGRW8VMURV/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Jabroni+Short+Story+Cover.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Jabroni - Jabroni noun 1) One who is paid to lose. 2) In professional wrestling, a wrestler who loses in order to make another wrestler look good. 3) Jillian Newkirk Fresh out of rehab, and on the verge of permanently becoming a Hollywood has-been, veteran and (formerly) well-respected TV producer Jillian Newkirk accepts the only job left in town for him - running the ratings-challenged Thursday Night Wrasslin’ for his ex-fiance’s struggling network. The question now: Is this really a bona fide opportunity to rebuild a franchise and, more importantly, his shattered life? Or is Jilly being set up to lose by an unforgiving lover with this seemingly impossible task? https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-lindseyjane daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1609022046736-P5XOI9XI41N7TDLBM5KX/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Lindsey%2FJane+Short+Story+Cover.png Joe Nelms Writer – Lindsey/Jane Lindsey/Jane is the gripping story of an innocent young woman who gets kidnapped and forced into the world of human trafficking to work as a sex slave. https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-the-right-to-be-bitter daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1609022610558-OJ9H7AJF4OSXR39U8CO9/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+The+Right+To+Be+Bitter+Short+Story+Cover.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – The Right To Be Bitter A short story about a unique friendship between two misfits – a gay, bipolar athlete and an albino little person – who find each other at the right time, only to lose each other soon after. https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-contact daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-zoom daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1614381793890-21SFEAAELT9SLD0U75XB/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+Zoom+Play+Key+Art.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Zoom Created in response to a year of living through the stress of the pandemic, Zoom is a short play that addresses the pain, stress, and hopelessness that were inevitable even in the earliest days. A monologue delivered from the perspective of the now ubiquitous app, Zoom speaks directly to anyone who has ever had to use their laptop to connect with the outside world to remind us all that the crisis won’t last forever but while it does, none of us has to be alone. Zoom premiered in the Theater Resources Unlimited TRUSpeak – Hear Our Voices! 2021 fundraiser and starred Jim Brochu, Brenda Braxton, Robert Cuccioli, Ann Harada, Jana Robbins, and Dickie Hearts under the direction of Dennis Corsi along with the inspiration and guidance of TRU founder Bob Ost. In 2022, Zoom was chosen to open the Left Edge’s Hindsight Theater Festival and was reinvented by a completely different production that only one actor. https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-gmo daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1610063553575-PID1F0C2N25BW0WQUCUM/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+GMO+Cover.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – GMO GMO is the tale of beaten down, mid-level food scientist Gordon Miller Osborne. Depressed by his life and abused by his boss, Gordon contemplates suicide, but decides against it at the last minute, only to become involved in a work-related accident that could end his career. When Gordon's overbearing boss finds out about the accident and the superpowers it created in Gordon, he insists on following the strict corporate protocol of the mammoth food company they both work for. After all, those powers were created on company time, they belong to the company. Can things get any worse for Gordon? 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The trail he follows twists, turns, and ultimately leads him to an answer he never sees coming. https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-plus-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1615326528409-N1R0OHTE2LSXR2S8GWN5/Plus+One+Home+Page+Icon.png Joe Nelms Writer – Plus One https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-the-dry-line daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/d1a4e71e-b10d-4d59-bc36-a5a63ae738fa/Joe+Nelms+Writer+%E2%80%93+The+Dry+Line+Poster.png Joe Nelms Writer – The Dry Line A one-act drama that explores the expectations, obligations, and limitations of love. Who defines them? Who enforces them? What are their consequences? What are the bonds we choose to accept even when we no longer have to? When a tornado warning forces two women, Mimi and Tabitha, to shelter in a suburban basement, they are forced to confront some long-buried issues – they are the first and second wives of the same man – and one very pressing one – that man is upstairs, unprotected from the tornado, and the women are not capable of bringing him downstairs with them. https://www.byjoenelms.com/joe-nelms-writer-home daily 1.0 2021-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/875a01c7-8ba3-4795-95e3-eab2f90e48e5/Burning+House+2023.png Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/3036cbba-67db-4769-9f7f-722930ed9533/What+Norman+Saw+2023.png Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – What Norman Saw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/869d4ad9-3307-4c99-a19a-429b96ddae86/The+Dry+Line+Header+123125.png Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – The Dry Line https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608759099117-MPAA18CXKNSBEBDEKTQ5/LTID.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – The Last Time I Died https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608758817885-4XNR1P1HQ20VE5594K7Y/By+Joe+Nelms+Gallery+4-3+Images3.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – Formerly Fingerman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/af328054-3022-4a20-8eb2-04e96856a862/Zoom+Key+Art.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – Zoom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/2dfbc953-2274-468a-b824-23e9842641f4/Plus+One+Home+Page+Icon.png Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – Plus One https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1611201995197-5ZVLH7HD38MW89T5K0HN/Lindsey+Jane+Home+Page+image.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – Lindsey/Jane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1611201676787-9T2Q8AIYOWJNOBG5CLD8/Mrs+Hollowell.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – Mrs Hollowell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608759308392-ZYQE3OXXAGR7QCPS0PZM/Jabroni.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – Jabroni https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608759297269-SV44Q6TPN6K9QNNLO1PN/AAR.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – All American Runt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608759324500-972M2IHXXBZVQE5HH3RV/BH+Novel.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – Burning House Novel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1608758817645-7MK5B6QMI9IHMX1C0UPR/By+Joe+Nelms+Gallery+4-3+Images5.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – The Right To Be Bitter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe22b3b5173fb1701afa712/1610064000248-FY3WTK61HUTNVB4O4LBY/GMO.jpg Joe Nelms Writer – Home Joe Nelms Writer – GMO