Outcasters

Since 1995, I set out as an artist to create characters who were hideous, strange and did not fit within the normal boundaries of a modern society. The Circus Freaks, my 1st creations, are such examples of de-humanizing humans, placing them in a world where they are not accepted by the majority and must push their way uphill to gainpower. After 15 years of creating many people, places and things based on the real world, publishing books, including this one, I came to an epiphany. Who you are in relation to someone elsedepends not on skin color, age, religion, sexualpreference, language, biology, country or planet. These short stories contain individuallives of those you are familiar with in one socialcategory or another as opposed to those of yourneighbor, family member, significant partner, yourenemies, and those unlikely youve never met. In the end, a world, a galaxy of prosperitycomes with the efforts of all who are related becausethey are unrelated and thats exactly what this bookis about. --Maestro Drake