Nicole Cosgrove

Lingua Franca

Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s a trans woman.

Georgica

Georgica, a seemingly bizarre story of a woman who spends the summer stealing the sperm of young, attractive male life guards by planting condoms where they frequent, stalking them at night and then retrieving the sperm from the used condoms to inseminate herself. It is only after we expose Sophie's past that we start to realize, maybe she's not so crazy after all.

Gun

After a thief breaks into Roy's home, he buys a handgun for protection. But the gun's power is seductive and Roy's obsession with it suggests he doesn't have the control he thinks he has.