SHORTHAND - Episode 1: The November Feature

SHORTHAND - Episode 1: The November Feature

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Complete Tue, Jul 7, 202635m

Fiction

Mystery

Amateur Sleuth

Tagscoming-of-age documentation fiction guilt journalism

The November Feature In the quiet, fading halls of Weld County High, student journalist Lydia Prater has a singular reputation: she is the one who gets the stories with the locked doors. Driven by a fierce, uncompromising ambition to write her way out of her dead-end hometown, Lydia has taught herself never to look too closely at the personal cost of landing a good scoop. With a looming deadline and the coveted editor-in-chief slot on the line, she sets her sights on the town's quietest mystery: a boy named Roy who has inexplicably evaded the camera for six consecutive years, leaving only a blank gray box in every yearbook. But as Lydia attempts to break the silence of the boy who refuses to be captured, she finds herself navigating uncharted territory that threatens her carefully constructed rules. The November Feature is an atmospheric, character-driven exploration of ambition, the heavy weight of small-town secrets, and the profound difference between getting a story and truly seeing a person.

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