David Farren

Bitter the Second Time Around David Farren

This is a collection of stories by David Farren, author of Living with Magic and Mendaga's Morning. They begin with a second look at the actual Cisco Kid created by O'Henry (not to be confused with the radio and film character I remember from my youth) and continue through familiar supernatural tropes reimagined. Some are love stories of a sort, some are about the unexpected price of poking behind the curtain of everyday reality. And one, written just for this collection, is a special offering to all the minor and usually unnoted figures of a new mythology, especially certain gremlins lurking on the internet.