Cover Art for Marsha, You're Fired. Scene depicts a man and woman kissing over the skyline of Lincoln, Nebraska. The Nebraska State Capitol is at the bottom center of the page in white and red. A man in a backwards baseball cap is to the left, looking up at the couple, and a small red girl is to the right, also looking up at the couple. Red flags are flying over the Sharp Building. A deep blue composes the background. A peregrine falcon is flying towards the title.

Nebraska is no place to be gay... Or at least that's what some laws say.

 

Marsha is a single mother, struggling to make ends meet. Her life is nothing short of a disaster, and she has failed everyone she loves, especially her daughter, June. Worse yet, nothing ever seems to change.
 
On a particularly horrible day, she bumps into her college crush, Jason, who somehow still seems excited to see her. But her immediate circumstances are more pressing than a dream that died over a decade before.

 

Faced with an eviction as a thunderstorm forms, she instead makes the otherwise unimaginable decision to contact her daughter's father, Brad. She hasn’t spoken to him since the night they slept together, and never told him June was his, but she’s run out of options.

 

As the wind whips outside, she and Brad down one beer after another, until out of nowhere, he asks her why she kept their daughter from him for all those years. Immediately, the pressure builds between them, and she tries to cling onto the persona he’s built since high school. But then he shatters her assumptions by exposing a truth he’s kept secret his entire life.

 

Suddenly, the lies holding her back crumble, and as a rainbow reaches to the ground, she takes her chance to win back Jason. But after eleven years, can he forgive her? And even so, should he? All it takes are a few steps into the Capitol’s gothic tower, looming far overhead.

 

If only it were that easy…

 

At the same time, Brad is navigating several new challenges of his own. From learning how to coparent June to  forging the first real connections he’s ever made, he tries to build a life for himself, far removed from his previous fears. But an unhealthy coping mechanism and a cheap bottle of vodka threaten it all.

 

Will despair cloud his fragile hope? Can he stand tall despite the weight of a state that would rather leave him hidden? And does he deserve love, too?

 

Somehow, together, they’ll try to prove that Equality can come Before the Law, after all.

 

And in the end, maybe Brad will finally get to say his piece, too.