Blurred Capacity

Chris Marison is a very irregular teenager. At seventeen, he has surpassed all tests put to him by scientists and has shown his brain to be the storage house of all information that exists and that ever will exist.

He predicts, he remembers, he corrects. He is the definition in the dictionary of "genius" and yet he is cooped up in his family home. In the bedroom he has lived in for seven years of boring and uninteresting life.

He doesn't have friends, his parents are scared of him and he has proven every doctor wrong so they have just stopped trying to understand him. He can hear explosions in North Korea and earthquakes in Italy from his small pocket of suburban Alaska. He feels when people are scared of hijackers on their planes and can almost touch the painful injuries of the soldiers in Afghanistan fighting to keep his country safe.

He can feel, see, hear, smell, touch everything. He hates it.

When you're like this, it's hard to live normally in the real world - so why Christopher found it within himself to escape his house one day in winter and run into the public eye (only to find himself on a cold, wet bench three hours later, planning to sleep out in the snow) is a mystery.

But maybe something will come of it for him.