Darkness Matters — Jay McLean

It's the same old story, really. Good versus evil. Heroes versus villains. Light versus dark. For two years, college freshman Noah Morgan lived his life somewhere in the middle, fighting darkness and light, always searching for answers to a single question: Why, Noah, why? The same three words keep him up at night, struggling for air while gripping a plastic cylinder containing white pills to match the white label with his name printed in ink as deep and dark as his memories -- memories that turned him into a recluse. A shut-in. An introvert. Luckily for him, that's not how the girl next door sees him.