Blue Land

" With a voice that is at once sad, beautiful, angry, and deceptively lyric, Collins guides us through the heat-shimmered lowlands of her characters' everyday lives to the bittersweet inner sanctums that enable them to survive. These are trips from which we come away enlightened, emboldened, and sometimes enraged, but always strangely hopeful. "— Will Lupens, from the foreword CD Collins's debut short story collection invites readers into a world shaped by the smell of tobacco leaves, the sweat