I want to scream.

but instead of telling myself not to, i think of a whole list of irrelevancy:
why do i want to scream?
who do i think i am to scream at 1am?
what do i want to scream about and what do i think will happen?
do i think my voice can even go that high?




i can't even do things without reasons anymore.
idiot. i need to get a life.

MC is a young man just graduating from HS in a small town. He's shy, studious, and obsessed with Shakespeare and Elizabethan England. He's in the drama club, but stays in the background, doing props and painting sets. He's been accepted into college in NYC with great English and Theatre programs, but his parents expect him to go to the local state school and major in something practical.

On graduation night, while everyone else in their grade parties, MC and his best friend (aka BF) are spending the evening with a smuggled bottle of champagne and a stack of Shakespeare movies. Next thing MC knows, he's in Elizabethan England, inhabiting the body of Jack, a plucky orphan who does menial chores at the Globe Theatre.

MC quickly befriends a seamstress working for the theatre, whom he finds to be similar to his BF, and learns that Jack longs to make his life in the theatre. MC spends the summer as Jack, and winds up as the stage manager for the final performance of the summer season.

He also falls in love with an actor, and makes a real connection with him, but the MC "wakes up" back into his old body and life. The summer has passed in that life, too, and he discovers that Jack has fought the college battle for him with his parents, and that's he's on the verge of leaving for NYC. He comes out to his parents and says goodbye to BF, appreciating her even more now that he's seen how far their friendship really stretches.

In the final chapter, he shows up for his first theatre class at college, and is instantly struck by another student, uncannily similar to the actor.