"I only slept with him once. A mistake. And then an accident. When I met him, he was the breath of freshness that cured the air that had gone stale inside me." Gloria Miles, wife of respected Baptist minister, Reverend "Rev" Miles, is the first lady of their church who bakes Sock-It-To-Me Cakes for her husband once a week, ensures that the house is kept well and the language used in it, kept clean. A teacher and loving mother of one, she is intimately playful and flirtatious with her husband as any wife in a healthy and happy marriage would be. Theirs is the perfect union; a sanctified one from which others should pattern their own. But things aren't always what they seem. After seven years of marriage, a space had grown between Gloria and Rev and neither of them knew what was pulling them so far apart. In a mutual agreement to separate, they briefly went their own way. Just when they find their way back to each other, their marriage is threatened once again; Gloria is keeping secrets from Rev. She considers reproductive choices without his knowledge, and in her anguish to reveal her truths, she opens the door to even more revelations that could mean the end of their marriage forever.
About the Author: Tara Nicole Youngblood, Playwright, Screenwriter and Producer, is the Founder and Executive Director of Theatre Ashé!, a company that provides quality, experimental theater that gives voice to the diverse African American experience in their presentation of plays by Ms. Youngblood. A Dallas, Texas native, Tara attended Arts Magnet High School for the Performing and Visual Arts at Booker T. Washington where she studied Theater with a concentration in Playwriting. She holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts & Social Change from New College of California, and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA. An activist and artist for social change, Tara is committed to using her dramatic works as a vehicle to bring focus to issues that affect the African American community but are often silenced by that community. Ms. Youngblood garnered Hollywood attention for her screenplay, "Double Dutch Chocolate," a coming of age Double Dutch jumping rope story, while it was under option in Los Angeles. She believes that with the right screenplays and enthusiastic investors, she can produce Hollywood quality movies in her own hometown. She continues to offer community level theater and concurrently works to bring national attention to her work as a playwright and screenwriter. Of late, Ms. Youngblood served as Artistic Director of Soul Children's Theatre Company at South Dallas Cultural Center where she managed the children's and teen theater and writing programs.