ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene: COLLATERAL HEARTS, by Stephanie Neroes

After spending their tenth wedding anniversary at the Mackinac Island, Jackson and Rebecca are in a tragic car accident which leaves her in a coma for 6 months and Jackson dead. After she wakes up, she has to grieve the loss and this takes a toll on her. She meets Patrick when he comes to the school to unblock a toilet one of her students filled with sand. He feels familiar to her but she brushes it off until she goes to a church to attend grief counseling, the same church he is attending AA meetings at. They become close until she realises that Patrick was the reason for the accident.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Rebecca: Julie Sheppard
Jackson: Steve Rizzo
Sadie: Hannah Ehman