Psychiatric Tales : eleven graphic stories about mental illness
Darryl Cunningham
Darryl Cunningham is himself a sufferer of mental illness as he has had to combat depression and anxiety through many of his childhood and adult years. His time working as a health care provider and on psychiatric wards - and his own life’s experiences - serve [...]
Newes from the Dead
Mary Hooper
Anne Green is dead. All of Oxford was there to see her hanged for the crime of infanticide. Even Anne Green knows that she’s dead.
Told in alternating perspectives – that of Anne Green as well as that of the doctors examining her body following her public hanging – this [...]
Bright Young Things
Anna Godbersen
Cordelia Grey wants much more out of life than to be married young and stuck in her hometown of Union, Ohio with a whole bunch of babies and unfulfilled dreams. She wants to go to New York City and be somebody. So that plan is that she and her best [...]
Revolution
Jennifer Donnelly
Andi is from Brooklyn and because of her own depression, her severely depressed mom, and her rapidly failing academics, she’s being forced to stay with her dad in Paris for a short time while he works on some DNA research. Andi and her dad don’t get along all too well, and she’s not [...]
Zombies vs. Unicorns
Edited by Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black
Justine and Holly, the editors of this anthology, are engaged in a heated, friendly argument about which is cooler: zombies or unicorns? Justine is all about zombies; they are obviously much, much cooler. But Holly insists that beneath their glittery charm, unicorns are just as [...]
Delirium
Lauren Oliver
Love kills. It’s a good thing that there’s a cure.
Lena can’t wait until her eighteenth birthday when she can undergo the government-mandated cure for Amor Deliria Nervosa, the condition that goes hand-in-hand with love. According to The Safety, Health, and Happiness Handbook (more commonly referred to as The Book of Shhh) love [...]
After
Amy Efaw
Devon doesn’t exactly know what’s happening to her, but she knows it isn’t anything good. She hates screwing up and she’s pretty sure that this time she screwed up big. But she wishes that everyone would leave her alone for now so that she could deal with it later. She’s so [...]
The Orange Houses
Paul Griffin
Tamika Sykes is a high school student who hates to wear her hearing aids, loves the rhythm of a guitar, works hard in class, and draws pictures void of people. Fatima is a refugee living in NYC all alone, with dreams of visiting the Statue of Liberty, and has a passion [...]
Shadoweyes
Ross Campbell
Have you ever wished that you could be a superhero? That you could wipe out all the bad in the world? That you could make other people happy and be happy? That you could be the answer to pain and loneliness? Unfortunately, we’ve learned from many of our traditional superheroes [...]
A Room on Lorelei Street
Mary E. Pearson
Zoe feels pretty alone in the world. She has some good friends, but she doesn’t get to spend much time with them. She and school don’t seem to get along all that well. She spends most of her time waitressing at Murray’s, taking care of her [...]
