There are ten stories here including one readers have waited ten long years for: in new novel-la _The Border State_ Rowe revisits the world of his much-lauded story _The Voluntary State_. Competitive cyclists twins Michael and Maggie have trained all their lives to race internationally. One thing holds them back: their mother who years before crossed the border into Tennessee. Praise for Christopher Rowe: Rowe’s stories are the kind of thing you want on a cold, winter’s night when the fire starts burning low. Terrific.” —Justina Robson (_Glorious Angels_) As good as he is now, he’ll keep getting better. Read these excellent stories, and see what I mean.”—Jack Womack (_Going, Going, Gone_) Rowe’s work might remind you of that of Andy Duncan. Both exemplify an archetypically Southern viewpoint on life’s mysteries, a worldview that admits marvels in the most common of circumstances and narrates those unreal intrusions in a kind of downhome manner that belies real sophistication.”— _Asimov’s_ As smooth and heady as good Kentucky bourbon.”— _Locus_ CHRISTOPHER ROWE’s stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon awards, frequently reprinted, translated into a half-dozen languages, praised by the _New York Times Book Review_, and long listed in the _Best American Short Stories_. He holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writer’s Studio. Rowe and his wife Gwenda Bond co-write the Supernormal Sleuthing Series for children, and reside in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky.