Fade to Black
About this audiobook
October 3, 2014
The happiest I’ve ever been in my life was when I was talking with you. This can’t be it.
Being reminded of this message on one of the worst night’s of my life is the definition of a silver lining. I’d been truly blocked on what to write for my next screenplay, but now I’m eager to plot out a romance born of online messages and flirty glances shared with my best friend’s older brother, Graham. I’m on fire to write about millennial messaging angst and give these characters the happily ever after that Graham and I never got.
Will it be good enough for a theatrical release? I hope so. But the writing is a struggle almost as soon as I start, and it only gets harder when Graham texts to say he’ll be in Los Angeles for three weeks.
He wants me to tour him around LA and though we’ve formed a loose friendship over the years at his family Christmases and backyard BBQs, our resurrected message threads bring everything up for me. It’s infuriating because he has no idea.
Graham is as calm, cool, and cocky as I remember from those summer trips to Old Orchard, and it has me wondering if any of it had been real. If it could be again. Or if like many things, the question of us is better left in the past.
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About the author
Emily Prescott is an award-winning screenwriter and author living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Her continued love of storytelling has brought her across mediums and genres. When she’s not pursuing her first Hollywood premiere or polishing her upcoming novels, she can be found sipping tea, crafting, and drawing. In all her work—screenplays and prose—she wants to explore what it means to be human while providing a place for audiences to heal, grow, cry, and laugh their way to a deeper experience on this spinning rock in the middle of space.
Jess Moran is a SOVAS Award–nominated narrator, and narrator of Spotify’s #1 Indie Audiobook of 2025, A Drizzle of Magic by S. Usher Evans. She gets a thrill out of bringing depth and range to all the characters she voices. She particularly loves a chance to narrate stories about strong women, awkward young people with gumption, shifting identities, and those shining a light on inclusivity. Jess has a BFA in Theater from Shenandoah Conservatory, and has continued her training in audiobooks with some of the best folks out there.
