In the Days in Between: A Short Story

Hannah and her best friend Ivy are just weeks from leaving their tiny Pennsylvania town for colleges over seven hundred miles apart. Through a summer of menial jobs and aimlessly running down the clock, they're holding on to the one thing that got them through high school—each other.One of them isn't quite ready to leave, to get on with her life. One of them kind of is, but doesn't want to say it. This is the story of how it never quite gets said.Award-winning writer and filmmaker Adam Bertocci has been praised by Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The New Republic, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Back Stage, Broadway World, E!, Maxim, IGN, Wired, Film Threat and more. In this keenly observed short story, he traces the subtle shifts and fragile poetry found in the chatter of friends caught between a small town and the rest of their lives.-----Approx. 3800 words