"Volume 1: The decibel penguin anthology" (Penguin, 2006)

10 New Voices from a Diverse Culture. I liked the pieces by Dickenson, Ermiya and Wellappili, but found most of the others unexceptional either because of plot or phrasing. "I was distracted by puffs of smoke billowing out like steam from train funnels from the kitchen's open windows" (p.73) is a struggle, for example