Take Your Own Advice, the story of a young kid who discovers he can predict the future, is a look at the “golden child” phenomenon encouraged by all of the systems we set up for kids, but it’s not as Teen Wolf as that sounds.

Reviews:

[A] striking debut…reading his succinct stories is as natural as breathing. But like the quick, fool-the-eye, knock-you-flat moves of kung fu (a recurrent theme), these tales of lonely, brooding, sweetly romantic guys pack covert and concentrated power.—Chicago Tribune

Messinger’s stories are aching, not bleak, and the collection, wittily and expressively illustrated with Rob Funderburk’s line drawings, is fun, engaging, and a bit more than thought-provoking. A fresh, spot-on debut.—Mark Eleveld, Booklist

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