Stereotype

"The sad truth is that I wish I were like them sometimes . . . the easy friendship they seem to have, the teenage normality that they all take for granted, that I used to imagine I’d have when I finally became a teenager."

Abigail Evans on the outside: quiet. Nothing special. Not someone you’d pay too much attention to.

Abi on the inside: aspiring poet. Always watching and analysing other teenagers. Determined not to be a stereotypical angsty adolescent. And wishing that the one solace she’s found for the dark thoughts swirling around her head – taking sharp objects to her flesh – didn’t make her feel like such a complete and utter cliché.

Originally published by Poolbeg Press in 2003, Stereotype is now available in a digital edition for the first time.

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