A great collection of short stories across genres. These authors write with strong voices to create amazingly powerful and captivating works. Some included pieces are mysterious, others express deep romantic thought, and some explore death and memory. Travel to 1980s New York, a world where monkeys enter politics, and spend a dark night in the woods.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the foreword by Sheila O’Flanagan: “Story telling is universal. We need each other’s words to make sense of the world we live in, and we need to read to take us to those places that we cannot currently be. We also need young writers to show us the way, to take chances, to see things in a different light, to shake up what’s gone before. All of the writers in this anthology have done this. They are exceptional writers in exceptional times.”