Shy
by Max Porter· 2023
This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. *You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that.* He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. *Got your special meds, nutcase?* He is escaping Last Chance, a home for 'very disturbed young men', and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past and the heavy question of his future.
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This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. *You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that.* He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. *Got your special meds, nutcase?* He is escaping Last Chance, a home for 'very disturbed young men', and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past and the heavy question of his future.