Hard Stories: A review of "The Essential Bordertown"

These are not happy stories. They are real ones. The short stories that make up the collection "The Essential Bordertown," while set in a city between The World and the Faery border where Elves dye their hair and ride magic powered Harleys and humans can dream themselves into the First Forest, are about real people. The main characters are abused children, teenagers looking for their place, and those who have to pick up the pieces of their lives after a friend commits suicide. These are hard stories. The kind you are a bit afraid to finish. The kind you can't put down. The kind that keep getting interrupted as they inspire you to write yourself (I did this so many times during the first story that it took me an hour plus to finish it). Most definately worth all the time I put into getting a hold of it.