Here's a rare treat. There have been some fine young adult short story anthologies in the last year, but single-authored collections for teenage readers tend to be scarce.?These tales capture perfectly what Chambers calls the "anguish, longing, pining, yearning, restlessness" of what it's like to have many of the responsibilities of being an adult, but almost none of the privileges. Teenage readers will love this nastiness and the dark strangeness of all these stories. They'll also love how seriously imagined their lives are.