Crossroads

$ 187,000 Kristia Vale knows this number the way she knows the weight of a knife in her hand. It sits underneath everything - every decision, every sleepless night, every kilometre of highway between Dubbo and a city she's visited three times. She's twenty-six. She has a hatchback full of everything she owns, a business plan touched so many times the manila has gone soft, and a jaw that hasn't unclenched since the ignition turned in the dark.

She's opening a restaurant. Not because she dream...