The beast you are : stories
(Book)

The fifteen pieces in...The Beast You Are are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart. In 'The Dead Thing,' a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her parents’ substance addictions and split. One day, her little brother claims he found a shoebox with 'the dead thing' inside. He won’t show it to her and he won’t let the box out of his sight. In 'The Last Conversation,' a person wakes in a sterile, white room and begins to receive instructions via intercom from a woman named Anne. When they are finally allowed to leave the room to complete a task, what they find is as shocking as it is heartbreaking.