Prologue

During her sophomore year in high school, Nevaeh was targeted in a secret text message chain by a handful of her peers.

Because the U.S. doesn’t usually prosecute anyone under 18 for the crime of smuggling people illegally across the border from Mexico, tons of teenagers do it, for money.

Gary puts on a tough guy costume, but will it turn him into a tough guy? Ira continues Gary Gulman’s story.

There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it.

Brian and Peg disagree over a very important thing.

Carmen Milito tells Ira the story of a date she went on as a teenager, and the bird her mom brought to the occasion.