![]() ![]() But then there are magical, intoxicating neighborhoods that are alive with joy, love, and wonder. Its dark alleys, squats, and bad neighborhoods ooze with danger and fear, and you know that around any corner misery, pain, and perhaps death are waiting. Over the course of the book, it seems to come alive: pulsing with magic, music, and energy. Runaway human teens flock here looking for second chances: some discover both their true selves many find a magical second chance and countless others face tragic fates that are worse than whatever they ran away from.īordertown the city is as much a character in this collection as the individual protagonists in the stories and poems. It’s a city that’s been lost to The World for 13 years (only 13 days to those in Bordertown) where neither magic nor technology work reliably and strange magic often wafts across the border from The Realm. Truebloods (High and Low-born Elves), Halfies (mixed race elves & humans), and mortals, as well as many other magical creatures live in, search for, and get lost in Bordertown. Carefully crafted, skillfully interwoven, and richly textured, the collection flushes out the dark and the magical, the secrets and the mysteries, of the border between the Faerie Realm and The World. 23 interwoven stories and poems are edited by Holly Black and Ellen Kushner in Welcome To Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands. ![]()
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