Worth Repeating

Burgin Streetman is a writer and the assistant director of Trinity University Press. She started her career in books at Doubleday Book Shop in New York City and has worked for Barnes & Noble, the Jim Henson Company, and Artisan Books. She has written for the San Antonio Express-News, the San Antonio Current, and the San Antonio Report and blogs at Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves. She lives in San Antonio.

Introduction
Paul Flahive


Will You Go with Me?
Heather Armstrong


Millionaire Slumdog
Tanveer Arora


Turkey Royalty
Jennie Badger


Ride or Die, Friends
Kiran Kaur Bains


Operation Babylift
Marion Barth


Passing My Disability
Sheila Black


The Hospital (and Jim Crow) Killed My Mom
Barbara Bowie


Oreo
Norma Elia Cantú


My Mother Was Thinking of Me
Kelly Grey Carlisle


Are You Out There?
Cary Clack


Puro San Antonio
Jess Elizarraras


I Smell Gas
Georgia Erck


The Vegetarian with Swine Flu
Tiffany Farias-Sokoloski


A Science Experiment Gone Wrong
Elizabeth Fauerso



Saving History
Everett L. Fly


Texas Roots
Larry Garza


The Beatdown That Wasn’t
Lorenzo Gomez III


Everything was Fine until the Violent Revolution
Mike Knoop


Sharing Tea with Syrian Intelligence
David W. Lesch


Grateful
Rey Lopez


The Neighborhood of My Childhood
Vanessa Martinez


How I Became a Brony
Collin McGrath


Live, Laugh, Lowride
Joaquin Muerte


Punk Rock, Leather Bars, and Life on the Road
Sanford Nowlin


The Dropout Who Teaches High School
Tori Pool


Forever Changed
Wendy Rigby


Respect the Lechuza
Alex Rubio


What Are You Doing Here?
Jonathan Ryan


Sixteen and Living in a War Zone
Yara Samman


A City Boy—Under Protest
John Phillip Santos


Buried Alive
Burgin Streetman


Fake Heads and Wonder
Whitley Strieber


Dark Was the Night
Barbara S. Taylor


From High Finance to High-Wire Act
Michael Taylor


Miseducation Blues
Kirsten Thompson


Don’t Mess with a Theater Major
Clay Utley


Baddest Drug Dealer Undone
Cristina Van Dusen


Pilgrims Lost on the Journey
Eddie Vega


In Service
Ayon Wen-Waldron


Reckoning with Racism
Bria Woods


Contributors
Acknowledgments and Credits