Short Stories Ranging from Fantasy to Science Fiction to Contemporary, from Romance to Tales of Revenge

Edited by Ellen Oh A Thousand Beginnings and Endings Fifteen authors of Asian descent reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia, in short stories ranging from fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge. T SS THOUSAND SHORT Edited by Natalie C. Parker Three Sides of a Heart: Stories About Love Triangles These top YA authors tackle the much-debated trope of the love triangle, and the result is sixteen fresh, diverse, and romantic stories you don’t want to miss. A teen girl who offers kissing lessons. Zombies in the Civil War South. The STORIES girl next door, the boy who loves her, and the girl who loves them both. Vampires at a boarding school. Three teens fighting monsters in an abandoned video rental store. Literally the last three people on the planet. T SS THREE All books on the list are available in print at West Linn Public Library. Some titles are also available in other formats. Use this guide for your search! Edited by Jessica Spotswood A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls = Downloadable eBook From pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago, take a thrill ride through = Downloadable audiobook history with American girls charting their own course. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, = CD audiobook screenwriters and schoolteachers, heiresses and hobos. They're making their own way in often-hostile lands, using every weapon in their arsenals, facing down murderers and Edited by Saundra Mitchell marriage proposals. And they all have a story to tell. All Out T SS TYRANNY From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to an asexual girl Edited by Marieke Nijkamp discovering her identity amid the 1970s roller-disco scene, this Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled collection of short stories crosses cultures and time periods to Teens shed light on a world where queer figures live, love and shape An anthology of stories in various genres, the world round them. each featuring disabled characters and T SS ALL written by disabled creators. The collection includes stories of interstellar war, a Edited by Ibi Zoboi journey to Persia, a dating debacle. The Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America teenaged characters reflect diverse colors, A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and genders, and orientations-- without obscuring the realities of emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and their disabilities. personal identity are different than someone else. T SS UNBROKEN T SS BLACK Edited by Justin Larbalestier & Holly Black Edited by Sangu Mandanna Zombies vs. Unicorns Color Outside the Lines: Stories About Love Twelve short stories by a variety of authors seek to answer An anthology of YA stories that explores the complexity and the question of whether zombies are better than unicorns. beauty of interracial and LGBTQ+ relationships. They're about T SS ZOMBIES how being different from the person you love can matter but how it can also not matter. They're about handling relationships Updated 2/2020 where differences are front and center. And they're about Chinese pirate ghosts, black girl vigilantes, colonial India, a flower festival, a garden of poisons, and so, so much else. T SS COLOR Edited by Kirsty Murray, Payal Dhar, and Anita Roy Various Authors Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean Meet Cute This award-winning Australian collection of feminist A collection of short stories exploring the fantasy and science fiction stories weaves together moment when a couple meets for the first impossibilities, dreams, and ambitions to reimagine what time--from an African American girl in girls -- and boys -- can be. upstate New York who simultaneously finds T SS EAT a prom dress and a date to a transgender girl who confronts the student blocking her right to use Edited by Lamar Giles the school restroom. Fresh Ink T SS MEET An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, Edited by Kelly Link and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and An anthology of stories explores the intersection of fear range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to and romance, ambition and sacrifice, loneliness and rage, adventure and romance. love requited and avenged, and the boundless potential T SS FRESH for connection, even across extreme borders. T SS MONSTROUS Edited by Holly Black & Cecil Castellucci Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd Edited by Stephanie Perkins A collection of twenty-nine short stories about geeks. My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday T SS GEEK Stories If you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love Edited by Christine Johnson with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by Grim twelve bestselling young adult writers. A collection of stories inspired by fairy tales, but all T SS MY featuring a dark and sinister twist. T SS GRIM Edited by Melissa Marr Shards & Ashes Edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond The world is gone, destroyed by human, ecological, or Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love supernatural causes. Survivors dodge chemical warfare Told in interconnected short stories, Hungry and cruel gods; they travel the reaches of space and Hearts explores the many meanings food can take on inhabit underground caverns. Their enemies are disease, beyond mere nourishment. corrupt corporations, and one another; their resources are T SS HUNGRY few and their courage is tested. T SS SHARDS Edited by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman It’s A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories Edited by April Genevieve Tucholke From stories of confronting their relationships with Slasher Girls & Monster Boys Judaism to rom-coms with a side of bagels and lox, It's a "Inspired by classic tales and films, a collection of fourteen Whole Spiel features one story after another that says yes, short stories ranging from bloody horror, to psychological we are Jewish, but we are also queer, and disabled, and thrillers, to supernatural creatures, to unsettling, all-too- creative, and political, and adventurous, and anything we possible realism, by acclaimed YA authors of every genre. want to be. T SS SLASHER T SS IT’S Edited by Bethany C. Morrow Edited by Kelley Armstrong Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Life is Short and Then You Die: First Encounters with Everyday Resistance Murder You might be the kind of person who This short story collection of murder mysteries adds a stands up to online trolls, or who marches sinister spin to the joy and pain of firsts that have always to protest injustice. Maybe you speak been a major part of life, whether it be high school cliques your truth and drop the mic, or maybe who take the term "backstabbing" too seriously, stumbling you take it with you when you leave. This upon a body on the way home from school, or receiving a anthology features poems, prose, and art that reflect a Snapchat message that promises something deadly. slice of the varied and limitless ways that readers like you T SS LIFE resist every day. T SS TAKE .

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