It Doesn't Last Long takes the reader on a ride from which they might never wish to return, gripping them with tales of young people confronting death as an emergent force in their lives, forever trying to reconcile themselves to a fate their world has adjoined to them beyond their control. This second installment of The Urban Trilogy seeks to prove the lasting power of escape in resisting the darker logics of our lives, executed with a creative will and forcefulness par excellence, one which portrays the reality of one's coming of age in a gaunt and expectant urban scene where the young hope and wait faithfully to discover what destiny awaits them - "to look to the stars and know there is no firmament... to get the feeling that this is the last ground we stand on before we might take flight."