This is a work of fiction that is a collection of psychiatric short stories about the fractured lives of children, teenagers and adults. It includes stories of young children abandoned, physically abused, and sexually abused, as well as stories of emotionally damaged young adults who are courageously struggling to survive. It is told in the format of a series of therapist-patient sessions that chronicle the path of these youngsters from psychological damage to healing which, in most of the tales is successful, with the exception of a few unfortunate souls that did not survive their ordeals.