What’s up with the trolls?

To my great surprise, I am working on my second story that contains trolls. I have nothing against trolls, I just didn’t plan on writing about any – but here they are nonetheless.

My first troll story came about thanks to an assignment in the week-long fantasy workshop I went to in Oregon last month. We were given a list of potential characters which included trolls, and part of the assignment was to set our story in the town we live in. I live in Boulder, Colorado, and kept being drawn to t...