Uptown Local and Other Interventions

Uptown Local features eleven long and short works from the last decade and beyond, including:

* In The Company of Heroes -- A billionaire "living the dream" goes on a desperate quest for the one thing he needs to make his life perfect: a very special comic book...

* The Rizzoli Bag -- A sad young man in a Roman cafe is offered a once-in-a-lifetime bargain...

* Out of the Frying Pan -- The life of a part-time witch working in a shopping mall is turned upside down in a day...

* The Queen and the Thief and the Dragon -- A (fairy) tale of the True West, and a young monarch's solution to a thorny diplomatic problem...

* Bears -- An ancient sorrow (with a modern twist) wanders through the tumult of a pre-Lenten street carnival...

* The Fix -- In the dark guts of Rome's Colosseum, a slave boy with an impossible dream becomes entangled in the machinations of immortals...

* Herself -- In the heart of Dublin, something is killing the People of the Hills -- and it's going to take Ireland's only superhero to stop it...

* Hopper Painting -- Desolation and redemption in a midnight diner...

* The Back Door -- Two terrorists meet in Zurich to carry out a very unusual heist with a confederate who's more dangerous than they imagine...

...And of course, the title story, beloved and sought after for a quarter century by Young Wizards fans, and finally available in an ebook -- along with the only other Young Wizards short story, Theobroma.