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"Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes," by Per Petterson.
Moving stories about a Norwegian boy in the 1960s coming to terms with the world.
"Trigger Warning," by Neil Gaiman.
These 24 stories and "short disturbances," as Gaiman calls them, are scary and dark.
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