Waifs And Strays

Waifs and Strays is a short story collection by O. Henry, released posthumously in 1917. Urban teens take center stage in a pair of edgy short story collections. Waifs and Strays presents 15 previously published works by Canadian fantasy writer Charles de Lint, including "e;May This Be Your Last Sorrow"e; from The Essential Bordertown and "e;There's No Such Thing,"e; which appeared in Yolen and Greenburg's anthology Vampires. In its first appearance, "e;Sisters,"e; tells of precocious 16-year-old Appoline, a vampire ("e;Yeah, I drink blood. But it's not as gross as it sounds. And it's not as messy as it is in some of the movies"e;) who plans to wait until her sister, Cassandra, turns 16 before turning her into one, too.