Returning home for the first time in nine years, 20-something Adrienne hopes to keep calm, aloof, removed, for the one weekend she agreed to visit, then fly off. Yet facing her family, and especially one old friend, proves to be more than she bargained for.+Shipped off after an embarrassing event at her brother's wedding, Adrienne chose to stay away until finally, nine years later, returns home for her father and grandmother.Stepping into the stuffy small town is immediately suffocating, but nothing compared to dealing with the interruption in her family. From her prim, proper mother, architect of her shame, to the similar, though warmer, sometimes insightful grandmother. Brother Doug, half life line, half guilt bomb. Her sweet, honorable, but powerless father, striving to offset his icy wife. Sunny, a crazy, free-spirited new friend who helps balance the swirl of feelings. And Hayley, once her person, grown to be beautiful, still sweet, but endlessly confusing to Adrienne's deeply packed emotions.Not your typical romance, maybe, but love still just might win in the end. Finding the human condition and our antics endlessly fascinating, I tend to write 'slice of life' pieces about moments, situations, interactions, personalities – most often with some amount of humor or irony, always with wonder. The subject or subjects are frequently lgbtq, w/w, to the degree it matters, since people are people, stories are stories.
