Stories and poems set in the urban land of Bordertown, a city on the edge of the faerie and human world, populated by human and elfin runaways.

Welcome to Bordertown / by Terri Windling and Ellen Kushner -- Shannon's law / by Cory Doctorow -- Cruel sister / by Patricia A. McKillip -- A voice like a hole / by Catherynne M. Valente -- Stairs in her hair / by Amal El-Mohtar -- Incunabulum / by Emma Bull -- Run back across the border / by Steven Brust -- A prince of thirteen days / by Alaya Dawn Johnson -- The sages of elsewhere / by Will Shetterly -- Soulja grrrl / by Jane Yolen -- Crossings / by Janni Lee Simner -- Fair trade / by Sara Ryan ; drawn by Dylan Meconis -- Night song for a Halfie / by Jane Yolen -- Our stars, our selves / by Tim Pratt -- Elf blood / by Annette Curtis Klause -- Ours is the prettiest / by Nalo Hopkinson -- The wall / by Delia Sherman -- We do not come in peace / by Christopher Barzak -- A Borderland jump-rope rhyme / by Jane Yolen -- The Rowan gentleman / by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare -- The song of the song / by Neil Gaiman -- A tangle of green men / by Charles de Lint.