Fifteen stories of teen heroes and heroines who find the spark to light their way through dark times, featuring Diana Benedict's "The Laser Point": Eighteen-year-old Kate Ingalls is five days clean from the drops, living on bologna sandwiches and getting through one moment at a time, with prison waiting if she slips. Her sponsor says she has to change her sandbox, and one night of pool with a new crowd leads to a job embroidering jackets and a future Kate can almost see. Then her old dealer pulls up beside her with a bottle of Electrum Perpetua, and everything is on a laser point.