Issues

EDGY, OMINOUS, YOUNG ADULT, SOCIAL ISSUES:

A fictional story based on a combination of factual events.

When a child lives with domestic violence they live in fear, unable to control the situation. They learn the behaviour and they too can become aggressive. They start to fight, they turn to bullying in order to take back control. To take away the pain they may turn to harming themselves. All that they want is to escape.

Marcus Daniel was a caring, intelligent, larger than average ten year old. His parents changed, then so did he. Now Marcus is thirteen years old and a spiteful bully, full of anger, rage and pain. His actions have changed others. Will the fear, pain and rage win? What will it take for him to change? How dark will it become before the light returns to his life?

Brendan says, "All bullies are also victims, yet because they are seen as a dominant perpetrator, we all detest them. I wrote this fictitious story, to try to help people understand the bigger picture and to hopefully, in doing so, we will start to see a reduction in bullying. We cannot simply continue to just punish bullies, we need to also support them and help them. Then and only then, will bullies stop their bullying!"