“I had watched the unused takes of Lionel and my sister enough times to know that when he kissed me for the first time, under that dead tree, he did so in a manner most similar to take number twenty-seven.” An emerging filmmaker finds herself becoming obsessed with the young man she’s chosen as her leading man in an independent film.

Joshua Hoover is a Chicago-based writer originally from Chesterton, Indiana. He is a student at Columbia College Chicago, pursing a dual major in Creative Writing and Stop Motion Animation.

Author: Joshua Hoover Narrator: Eleanor Linder