By The Editors

There's nothing like a live performance, as we're woefully aware of during the COVID-19 pandemic. But The Quail Bell Crew did get a brief taste of the olden days at the Long Island Theatre Collective's Fall Fest. This outdoor, socially distanced Sept. 25-26 event featured small casts and enforced limited entry to a parking lot in Bethpage, New York. Our founder Christine Sloan Stoddard and long-time contributor Ben Nardolilli (most recently the writer/narrator of the Quail Bell Productions film Drunken History) appeared in a one-act play at the festival. That play was Meagan J. Meehan's "A Soul to Squeeze," a comedy about an angel and devil fighting for the soul of a gluttonous festival-goer. Stoddard played the Angel, Donna Morales (who you might recognize from Quail Bell Production's "Cyber Cinderella") played the Devil, and Nardolilli played the Soul. And we have photographic evidence that this play did indeed take place:

By Alex Carrigan

​Pandemic literature before COVID-19 seems almost quaint nowadays. To imagine society falling apart due to some virus, usually traced back to an animal of some kind, seems easier to accept after how 2020 has turned out. Of course, this isn't to decry any pandemic literature before this year, but to make it interesting to study in hindsight. What do we know now about global pandemics that we only thought were fiction before, and how have the last several decades of research and study shaped our culture and media are all matters we've considered now that we've seen a pandemic of this scale play out.

By Red Sagalow

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg #RBG (March 15, 1933-September 18, 2020)

Rest well. Thank you for all you have done.