On Human Hearts and Hog Parts

A schizophrenic teenage girl’s manic one-sided romantic obsession with a hog faced poet leads her down a path of confusion and paranoia; while she attempts to seek enlightenment and answers to her ever evolving state of mind, it feels to her, the people in her life will do anything to stop her journey towards becoming illuminated to the mysteries of the universe.

Drugs! Angst! Hospitalization! Suicide! Mental Isolation! Poetry and Pig Parts! Ah so is love.

In the case file, Ashley reported hearing voices as early as eight years old. The same year her birth mother tried to drown her in a bathtub. The same year the state took Ashley and put her into care. Since then Ashley had spent most of her life in hospitals. Her doctors and adopted mother felt it was time to get her out into the world. She was going to be fifteen and needed some real friends. Some normal life experiences...