Grow UpPaperback, 1 July 2011

Jasper has his hands full. Finishing sixth-form college would be hard enough without a mother pushing him to overachieve, and his friends pushing drugs down his throat. And then there's his step-dad: moustache-wearing, patronising, and, as all the evidence suggests, a murderer. Brooks' work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in the Dzanc Best of the Web anthology.