Presents ten short stories by well-known authors featuring teenagers with phobias, inluding fear of gaining weight, fear of clowns, and fear of cats.

The door / Alex Flinn -- Calle de Muerte / Ron Koertge -- Thin / Joan Bauer -- D'arcy / Angela Johnson -- Claws and effect / Dabid Lubar -- Rutabaga / Nancy Springer -- Bang, bang, you're dead / Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple -- No clown zone / Gail Giles -- Instructions for tight spaces / Kelly Easton -- Fear-for-all / Neal Shusterman.