Emerson Adams

Virgil, a college writing student, hopes to have his latest story published, but he must first get over one major hurdle before his work gets out to the world, his mercurial writing professor Richard Laymen.

Rewriting Mallory follows the lives of two people struggling to maintain control amidst the messy reality of an unpredictable life. Joshua, a young man dealing with grief after the passing of his sister, turns to writing as a means of processing his emotions. Mallory, a young woman who seems to always be one step behind, finds her life crumbling in front of her over the course one awful day. As their paths intersect, we are left to wonder: are we really the authors of our own stories?

A college freshman drives seven hours to visit his girlfriend at another school, only to be broken up with as soon as he arrives. Unsure what to do next, he spends the rest of the night getting roped into various unexpected situations by a wide array of eccentric characters.