Welcome to Orangeside

Orangeside Community College is the kind of place that looks normal from a distance—brick buildings, a cafeteria that smells like ambition and ketchup, and flyers taped to every surface like the campus is being held together by printer ink and delusion.

Up close? Orangeside is a beautifully malfunctioning ecosystem.

Here, every “simple announcement” becomes a public event. Every club meeting becomes an incident. Every group project becomes a social experiment. And every attempt at self-improvement—studying harder, being nicer, celebrating the holidays “the right way,” saving the planet, learning to fight, quitting vaping—somehow turns into a full-scale comedy of errors with consequences that feel way too dramatic for a school that can’t keep toilet seats in the bathrooms.

At the center of it all is a study group that didn’t ask to become a family… and definitely didn’t ask to become each other’s problems:

• Chase Wright — a former lawyer trying to coast through community college on charm, sarcasm, and the absolute minimum effort… until Orangeside starts sanding the edges off his ego.
• Amelia Winters — high-strung, hyper-capable, and constantly one sudden responsibility away from reinventing anxiety as a renewable energy source.
• Christina Puhr — sharp, blunt, and allergic to nonsense (unless she’s the one weaponizing it).
• Wilson Firestone — a proud, unkillable fountain of confidence, bad advice, and “helpful” plans that should be illegal.
• Tyrone — competitive, loud, unexpectedly sincere, and forever trying to prove he’s the coolest person in any room he enters.
• Sharon Brenner — warm, intense, and determined to mother a group of adults into becoming a functional holiday-card version of themselves.
• Elvis — quiet, observant, and somehow always one step ahead, like he’s watching the episode ten seconds before everyone else.

Together, they stumble through exams, rival schools, bizarre campus traditions, ill-advised awareness events, and the constant question Orangeside forces on everyone who survives it:

Are you going to stay the person you were… or become someone better by accident?

If you like sitcom energy in book form—fast dialogue, chaotic group dynamics, heartfelt turns that sneak up on you, and a world where the smallest decisions ripple into ridiculous consequences—welcome.

You’re in the right place.

A Note on Orangeside Daze

Orangeside Daze began as a writing exercise.

Years ago, before my wife and I created the Lies of Consent series, I wanted to sharpen my dialogue, pacing, and ensemble storytelling. So I challenged myself to recreate the energy of a sitcom I loved — entirely from memory — using my own characters, voices, and dynamics.

The result was Orangeside Daze: a web-series experiment built around rhythm, banter, and character chemistry.

It was never written with commercial publication in mind, and it won’t be sold or distributed beyond this site. Some early story beats may feel familiar in structure — that was part of the exercise. But the heart of it has always been about developing Chase Wright and Amelia Winters, long before they stepped into the darker, more original world of Lies of Consent.

If you’re curious about where their dynamic began, this is the archive.
If you’re here for fully original canon, that starts with our published series.

Either way — welcome to Orangeside.