Kids Are All Right

Dahli Sandiniti is luckier than most teen girls on her home world of Sferkkaa, and she knows it. She has a roof over her head, her best friend Diza, her older sister Tierra, a room of her own with some posters on the wall, and usually food enough to eat. What Dahli loves most of all is music, especially Sferkkaa's most famous band, The Mortified Gryphons. She'd love to meet the drummer, but that will never happen. Certainly not by accidentally walking into a bathroom and clobbering him with a door.Gemma Mayfield has had a very different life from Dahli. Having grown up in Canada, in a safe neighbourhood far away from violence and death, she has no understanding of hunger, fear, and illness. She's just one more singer-songwriter on a great intergalactic ship, heading to Sferkkaa, invited to join the people there in a five-day festival celebrating the end of the year.Draephus CZimcocious has wealth, fame, and a beautiful castle to call home, but his life is far from perfect. Arthritis is eating his joints, his lover is dying, and he somehow managed to end up having an affair with his best friend. The drugs he takes keep away the worst of the aching, but now addiction is becoming as big a problem as pain. Draephus is eaten alive with guilt, arthritis, and addiction, and the last thing he needs is one more problem, which just smacked a bathroom door right into the cuts and fractures on his face.Somehow, all this leads to several teenagers stealing a body and placing it in an unmarked grave...