He's fifteen, forty-one, and twenty-seven all at once-- at least, in terms of his personality.
But mostly fifteen.
Tyler isn't human, as far as he can tell. He has a patch of scales on his right shoulder, another set of arms at his sides. He really is quite peculiar. Barely managing a high-school for gifted students, and hiding both his scales and extra arms, he's constantly wondering why he's so different. His parents would know-- if only they were still alive.
After staying at the house of another girl, Florence Walters, for all of his first year of high school, Tyler realizes that she isn't so different from him.
Eagerly, he asks her parents about his deformities, only to receive an answer that makes Tyler realize that he has to leave immediately.
With Florence.
For Mostly Fifteen by Taylor Denison (http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/user/877074).
Attribution: Cover design by Starflower Hunting. Stock image (smoke) courtesy of *cyborgsuzystock on deviantART (http://cyborgsuzystock.deviantart.com/). Stock image (boy) courtesy of ~Johnny-Yong on deviantART (http://johnny-yong.deviantart.com/).
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