a. Machnik is a teenage boy cursed/blessed with a beautiful androgynous face. Confused by him, boys abuse him; repelled by him, girls slag him; and by mid high-school, he's developed an acute case of aphenphosmphobia (fear of being touched). Art and music remain his only escape from an otherwise emotionally empty life.

e. Mason is the tough-talking dyke who befriends him. The only one to see all of his sides as a loner, fellow artist and best friend, she starts to wonder if Ash is ever going to see all of her...

a + e 4EVER is a graphic novel set in that ambiguous crossroads where love and friendship, boy and girl, straight and gay meet. It goes where few books have ventured, into genderqueer life, where affections aren't black and white.