As far as I could tell, "The Henry Show" was a story about a guy writing a story about a person with a mental illness that makes him think he is constantly in front of an audience and that his entire life is filmed as part of a reality show. After a visit with what I'm assuming is his therapist in real life, Henry goes out to have a good time and ends up getting shot. I think.
At the beginning this story did a good job of letting reader's know what was wrong with Henry; he has a mental illness, and it wasn't hard to deduce that the "actor" is actually a therapist that is trying to help Henry reconnect with reality. I found the plot creative, as I've never heard of anyone experiencing the illness Henry apparently has.
After the bar scene when the blonde girl calls Henry out for rape, I got totally lost in the story. I don't even know what to suggest to improve it because I'm that confused about what was going on. I think Henry takes two trips into the alley, and in one trip he is being mugged and in the other trip he finds a gun. I found the ending to be really jarring because I was trying to understand what was going on and then all of a sudden there enters characters totally unrelated to what I'd been reading the whole time. I felt almost like this story was started, then the author realized he was running out of room so he just tacked on that ending so he would be in the page limit. I may be totally wrong though. If that was the original intention, then I would make the character of the person who is writing the story appear earlier in the story, perhaps at the beginning. If the main character is Henry, then I don't see any emotional journey or change within him. A lot just needs to be clarified, because I'm still really confused about what I just read.
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