The Wild Card

Is twenty-three too old for running away? I sure hope not. Because, right now, that's my current and only life plan.

Desperate to escape the dome of control my father has dropped over my life, I visit my brother in Texas--with no plans to use my return ticket home.

But after spending every cent of my savings to pay off my student loans, I need a job. Stat. Otherwise, I'll be forced to ask my brother for help and admit how bad things have gotten at home.

So, when the production company I'm interviewing with in Sheet Cake, Texas wants proof that I've got long-term roots here, I invent a fake local boyfriend.

Which would have been fine had they not asked to meet him. Today.