In these ten works, Matthew John Meagher asks a single question: what holds when everything breaks and the world doesn’t want you? The answer is never simple
Some gifts can't be afforded. Some teachers can't protect their students. Some basements hold things nobody says aloud.

Across ten pieces, Meagher brings a YA author’s respect for young people to every page. The stories move between a basketball court and a suburban living room; between parental screaming and the silence of a natural disaster; between the burning of skin and the smell of cinnamon rolls nobody asked for. These are the adolescents the world was not built for.

His teenagers run with gangs and bury their dead and find each other anyway. The world has given every one of them a reason to stop. None of them do. Communities come together and rebuild. Lovers cross enemy lines while avoiding the hardwood. And as teenagers tend to do, they don’t always see the monsters grinning in the dark.
He holds all of it without flinching. He asks you to do the same.
"My land is a desert, but we share light."