Real Life and Other Disasters - Tait Merren

In real life Sarah and Adam can't stand each other.

In their virtual lives they adore each other.

They just haven't put two and two together.

When Sarah is arrested for committing a reckless act, she's mortified to be rescued by the person she's consistently infuriated since high school. Infuriating him's not intentional. He just seems to be around to watch her fall on her face when yet another calamity strikes. The problem is, she can't help but reach out and pull him down with her.

Adam is paid for an eight-hour job that usually takes eleven. He can't wait to retreat into the digital world at the end of the day: A virtual reality chatroom set in a quirky corner of the Jane Austen fan fiction universe. Bantering with the woman behind Mister D'Arsy is rapidly becoming his favourite way to dissolve the stresses of the day.

When their two worlds hurtle towards inevitable collision, will Sarah and Adam be able to move on from their troubled past, or is this just another disaster in a long-standing tragi-comedy?