Cooper Mortlock

Otto Brooks is 16 with a massive imagination and a big secret he’s ready to reveal – he’s gay. Otto has the usual family, parents who love and embarrass him, a Uni student sister who wants to change the world, a pop culture-loving Nana and a best friend, Max, who he’s secretly in love with. Add to that, a school bully out for blood, and Otto has a lot to go through before he becomes what he really wants, to be: out, happy, and in love. Time to delve into the world according to Otto.

James struggles to chose between the love from his boyfriend, or the only family he has left. After his boyfriend encourages him to stand up for himself, he comes out to his conservative mother. His mother, a widow and devout Catholic, is hellbent on keeping her family righteous and pure as to be together in the afterlife. Thinking she can rid him of this illness, James is forced into shock therapy, leaving him conflicted, full of self hatred and a shell of his former self.