CHRISTINE OHLMAN, The Deep End—The Deep End insists on telling the truth until it alters perceptions of love and loss and how it all works, especially when it falls apart so tragically as that which produced this work of art. Here comes the sun, healing and transcendent.

SHAKURA S’AIDA, Brown Sugar—Being the sporting type, Shakur S’Aida practices her own style of “catch and release” program on her male prey, enjoying the art of the pursuit, appreciating the pleasure of the conquest, then letting the prize go, to swim another day. No men are harmed in the process, and the female of the species moves on to more abundant waters.