Childhood is supposed to be safe. But these stories know better. Stray children roam in hungry packs. A school sacrifices its students to forgotten gods. Harbingers from a doomed future confirm a childhood superstition. These fifteen unsettling tales follow children and teens poised to inherit a world that has already left them behind. Here, trauma and transformation bleed together, monstrosity becomes an inheritance, and kids sharpen their teeth on the bones of the adults who failed them. Rooted in fairytale and urban legend These Kids Are Not Alright is a love letter to the stories we tell to survive growing up, and the horrors we carry into adulthood. Praise for THESE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT: "The world seems like a nightmare, but somehow Bodine has managed to find even greater terrors. She effortlessly creates stories that give dark reflections on everything from parenthood and careers to classic fairy tales. Even supposed life-changing medications come with a price. Her novels have always been a source of horror with rich emotional depths, but her short stories are designed to horrify, working their way into your psyche." - Elford Alley
