Ryan Craver

The summer sun sets in rural Appalachia as twelve year old Cadie and her neighbor, Sarah, redefine their friendship in the eve of burgeoning sexuality.

A lonely, gay 13-year-old reflects on his complicated love for his volatile sister, the night she humiliated him, and her disappearance from their small, Southern town.

At the end of summer, an Asian-American 13-year-old pierces his own lip as a last ditch effort to win over a skater boy, who also happens to be his best friend.

When a closeted middle-schooler befriends the attractive new kid on an overnight biology field trip, he's forced to confront his queer identity, his relationship to his male anatomy, and his uncomfortable niche in the ecosystem known as eighth grade.