Description: Waifs and Strays is my first Young Adult collection, gathering stories written throughout my career that feature teenage protagonists. Here you'll find tales set in Newford and in Ottawa, in high fantasy and near future settings, and in Bordertown, too. Some have appeared in other collections, but many of them are from more obscure YA anthologies and magazines, with one new novelet, 'Sisters.' The cover art is by John Jude Palencar.