what's graceland about?

Nolan Ryan, 27, has just lost his father and has to get to the memorial. But he can't find his keys. His sister, Joann, 30, comes to pick him up and henpecks him for being single, for never being anything other than a disappointment.

Nolan realizes that this memorial is not the place for him. He knows his father never cared. He turns to his mother, Anna, and lets her know that he's leaving.

With the intention of going back to his apartment to go back to bed and give up on the day, Nolan walks out of his mother's house only to realize that he still doesn't have his car. He decides to start walking.

He lands himself at a restaurant where the waitress, Susan, is far more interested in his plights than he was hoping. At the inquest of her manager—and her own curiosity—she sits down with Nolan and forces him to talk to her. When she hears that he was going to go home and just go back to bed, she decides that he is going to a party with her that night. Her friend Denise is going away, "it'll be fun," she says.

Nolan has a hard time saying no pretty girls, so he goes along with it.

Festivals We're Attending

We start submitting to festivals in the middle of August. When we get word that we've gotten in, we'll begin a list in this section.