Malory and Kyle must participate in the annual April Fest production as the leading co-stars. If they can cooperate by the end of the production, their long records of uncivilized behaviour towards each other will be forgotten. 
Malory and Kyle attempt to cooperate, grabbing the opportunity to make a positive impact on their own future. In the process, they become entangled in the chaos of the other’s personal life. Malory learns of Kyle’s disturbing reality, and Kyle learns of Malory’s scarring past. Can these two brilliant but messy teens learn to rely on each other in the face of their silent battles?

Between The Lines

 I stare at the deck of cards resting on my work desk. A lighter is in my right hand; my left index finger is tapping on the glass table. 


 I pick up the deck and empty it from inside its box. 


 The first card in the deck is the joker. I’ve always found it funny that the joker meant killing the person you love the most. It’s even funnier considering there’s a joker at the end of the game, too, as if love can be found at the end of such a dark tunnel. I understand why killing the person you love would be the first task –and it’s morbid to think of why such a thing was thought up in the first place. 


 If you can kill the person you love the most, you can do anything else, because no one else would be worth the risk of losing the game. Every task after the first joker would seem like nothing to do –require less effort and risk little to no emotional attachment. 


 I raise the joker and stare at it in the light. 


Utterly Ridiculous [6]