How do men deal with their emotional problems?

Take a trip through the lives of…Preston, Charles, Darren, John, and Gary as they struggle with celibacy, a bossy fiancée, infidelity, interracial marriage  and a missing girlfriend. 

Women Can’t Play is a contemporary story set in Hampton, Virginia about five men who get together every Sunday to play an old board game. They have only known each other for a few months but their get-togethers are a way for them to relax and bond. However, their shared time together starts to dwindle as they realize that their personal lives are as complex and diverse as the game they love to play.

The Players

Charles is an attorney engaged to a snobby doctor whose domineering personality wears on him as he suddenly finds himself attracted to a hairdresser from the wrong side of the tracks.

Preston is a divorced and lonely accountant who struggles to reach a woman who bears as many emotional scars as he does.

Darren is a body-builder who despises his overweight wife. His affair with an aerobics instructor brings out issues that he never anticipated.

John is an Air Force Sergeant. His life seems idea to the rest of them. However, his marriage to a German woman has it’s own unique problems.

Their personal dramas threaten their bond as they fight through them without each other.

Will Preston find love at last? Will Charles get married even if he isn’t in love with his fiancée? Will Darren leave his wife? Can John reconcile that an interracial marriage can work? Is Gary responsible for his ex-girlfriend’s disappearance? Will the five of them ever get back to their board game?

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"Where are you going?” The sleep-filled voice of Sharon asked as she gazed at him through half closed eyes.

“Outside, I’m going to get a newspaper, and take a few laps around the high school track.”

“Oh, okay, my head hurts, do you have any Tylenol?”

“Yeah.” He quickly left the room and returned with a glass of water and two caplets. She took the medicine and turned back over. Moments later, he was driving toward Big Bethel high school. He parked next to the track and dialed Devera Harmon’s number on his cell phone. It took several rings before someone answered.“Hello... I mean Dee Dee’s house of style, Angie speaking,” the voice explained. Charles had to listen carefully as there was a lot of background noise, as if a party or some other unusual activity were taking place.

“Hello? Is Devera there?”

“Who? You need to speak up honey, I can hardly hear you.”

“Devera, is Devera there?” He repeated louder.

“De-who? I think you got the wrong number.”

“I mean, Dee Dee, is Dee Dee there?”

“Oh, yeah, she’s here, but she can’t talk right now, she’s-“

“Who’s on the phone?” A voice yelled from the background noise. The voice sounded like Dee Dee, but something was wrong.

“Who’s speaking?” The women asked.

“Charles.”

“Charles?, he said his name is Charles,” the woman yelled to someone.

“Give me the phone,” the distressed voice of Dee Dee ordered.

“No, Dee Dee, just sit down, you don’t need to be dealing with any men right now anyway,” a voice replied.

More debate ensued until finally Charles heard the choking, sniffling voice of the woman he adored so much.

“Charles?”

“Yes, Dee Dee? Are you alright?”

“No..I’m ..he…..”

“What happened Dee Dee, What happened?”

She tried to talk again but the heaving sobs overtook her voice again.“Dee Dee, I’m coming over there right now!” Without any thought to what Sharon would think, he slammed the car into drive and burned rubber toward Dee Dee's place.