Status Updates From The Collectors: Stories (Pr...

"Sweet Everlasting" by M. T. Anderson

Climax is a peak for a reason---whoever reaches it must, necessarily descend. If they do not, if they must forever remain at this great height, it will lose all of its luster. So be careful what you wish for! Pleasure cannot last forever, there must be pain and discontent; otherwise, there is no pleasure after all.

"A Recording for Carole Before It All Goes" by Jason Reynolds

Collecting memories, the everyday ones & the big ones, can so powerfully change the experience of losing someone. In this story, a young person collects stories for their grandmother who is forgetting things slowly due to Alzheimer's, and while, ostensibly, they're doing it for Grandma, it's also a powerful way to keep her even when she's gone.

"We Are Looking For Home" by A.S. King

For contentment, for belonging, for acceptance, for uniqueness. We so often fail, doomed in our efforts by inner doubts and demons that lie and bully and mislead. We covet confidence and surety, and that same confidence and surety leads to self doubt. It's hard to break out of this loop, but home is on the outside.

"Pool Bandits" by G. Neri

It's a 1970's summer, heat visible in the air and not a raindrop in sight. Kids roam the streets, the beaches, the ditches, and the backyards of people on vacation. There's freedom in sneaking into fences, draining pools to share the bowl...full days of trying and failing until you can fly.

"La Concha" e.E. Charlton-Trujillo

A collection of jars, of titles, of small moments together in a closet of the self, protected from His abuse and a mother's seeming death. This one reflects life and poetry. Beautiful.

La Concha це відбірна травма і скло, я рада, що все закінчилося так, як закінчилося. Не перше оповідання про аб'юзерів у збірці, але однаково боляче щоразу. Дуже хочеться обійняти авторів