Before Brightside: Mandy
Teenage Joe Nolan’s telepathy turns an intimate mistake into a dangerous lesson about secrets long before the government sends him to Brightside.
Before the government imprisoned telepaths in Brightside, Joe Nolan was a teenager trying to survive the thoughts of everyone around him. A compromising encounter with Mandy forces him to confront desire, secrecy, embarrassment, and the consequences of knowing what another person may never intend to say aloud. Before Brightside: Mandy is a short prequel to Mark Tullius’s Brightside Saga. It can be read before or after Brightside, although established readers will recognize more of what the experience reveals about Joe. This is an adult story and should not be marketed as a young-reader introduction without a final content review.