The Imaginary City and Other Places

There are various problems with living in an imaginary city, and all of them stem from the pre-reality nature of its not-quite-existence. You can't expect anything to work the way it does in the real world. What's even more confusing is trying to understand what stays in the imaginary places and what bleeds over into the real world. It's enough to drive you crazy. These nine short stories explore real places through rose colored lenses. They are a travelog of magic reality. Visit Petach Tikvah in Israel, a city that only exists in the imaginations of its inhabitants. Travel to the desert outside Dimona, and back to Tel Aviv in time for the Israeli tent protests during the summer after the outbreak of the Arab Spring. Far and away, the world is quite different in the American Pacific Northwest. The magic has a different flavor, but it's still recognizably magic. You'll know it when you see it. At last, take a trip to Scotland to lose your stresses and find yourself in amongst the dead trees.