by Loranne Temple — Runner-up for the 2009 Drake Emerging Writer Award. “Loranne Temple’s extraordinarily graceful stories are as inviting as a cool drink on a hot day. And like certain kinds of cool drinks, the stories in Coming To You from the Blue Room are deceptive, revealing their power only after we try to move away from them. A pleasure to read, these stories linger long in the mind.” Erin McGraw, author of The Baby Tree and The Good Life.