The Things We Hide (Act One)

Joe was nervous. It was his first day in a new city, with a new job. He didn’t feel right. He felt cheated, were most 19 year olds ran out of their home town? By their own parents no less? It was like the exclamation point to a constantly anti-climactic and chaotic childhood. But his Monday night feeling wouldn’t last much longer. Because leaning precariously over a cash register was a read-headed angel named Marian Bartsch. And she would change his life forever…