We Are All Together

It's 1967, the Summer of Love. When twenty-one-year-old guitarist Stephen Cane's promising band falls apart, he is forced to move back home to Topeka with his Christian mother. Unwilling to give up on his rock and roll dreams, he moves to New York to patch things up with his former friend and bandmate, Dylan John, a pioneer of psychedelic rock whose band, Red Afternoon, is on the verge of making it big. When Dylan unexpectedly quits the band to be a civil rights activist, Stephen is handed the opportunity of a lifetime to replace his brilliant friend and prove to himself and his alcoholic father that he is a great man. Against the backdrop of a nation in turmoil, Stephen takes a journey deeper into himself, questioning his dreams, his quest for greatness, his parents' conflicting advice, his inability to choose wisely in love, and his racial bias. We Are All Together addresses a nation struggling with its mythological past and the effects it has had on the integrity of the individual. Does the artist owe the world anything? Does the ailing world need another rock star?

It's 1967, the Summer of Love. When twenty-one-year-old guitarist Stephen Cane's promising band falls apart, he is forced to move back home to Topeka with his Christian mother. Unwilling to give up on his rock and roll dreams, he moves to New York to patch things up with his former friend and bandmate, Dylan John, a pioneer of psychedelic rock whose band, Red Afternoon, is on the verge of making it big. When Dylan unexpectedly quits the band to be a civil rights activist, Stephen is handed the opportunity of a lifetime to replace his brilliant friend and prove to himself and his alcoholic father that he is a great man. Against the backdrop of a nation in turmoil, Stephen takes a journey deeper into himself, questioning his dreams, his quest for greatness, his parents' conflicting advice, his inability to choose wisely in love, and his racial bias. We Are All Together addresses a nation struggling with its mythological past and the effects it has had on the integrity of the individual. Does the artist owe the world anything? Does the ailing world need another rock star?

Richard Fulco received an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, where he was the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship. His plays have been either presented or developed at The New York International Fringe Festival, The Playwrights' Center, The Flea, Here Arts Center, Chicago Dramatists and The Dramatists Guild. His one-act play Swedish Fish was published by Heuer Publishing, and his stories, poetry, interviews, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Failbetter, Across the Margin, Fiction Writers Review, Gargoyle, The Daily Vault, and American Songwriter. For six years, he wrote about music on his blog, Riffraf. He teaches creative writing and English at an independent school in New Jersey and interviews writers for his "5 Questions" series at his web site. His debut novel, There Is No End to This Slope, was published by Wampus Multimedia in 2014. We Are All Together is his second novel.