Welcome to Litsy!

Neil is a student at Birmingham University. He looks like a cross between Morrissey and Johnny Marr - equally attractive to girls and blokes. Sex, drugs, politics, music. Typical student really.One night after a row with his lover, Neil follows a stranger onto a canal towpath. The stranger turns on him and attacks. He viciously carves up Neil's face leaving him horrifically mutilated. Neil's recovery is a journey through surgical reconstruction and sexual alienation. His attempt to track down his mysterious attacker is a search for his own hidden, destructive self - a search that leads him to question values he had always taken for granted. The Blue Mask is a hardcore emotional trip that explores the trauma of change and the nature of violence and love.