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There is something about a certain kind of imagination... It has humor and
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There are familiar elements in each story ("Magic For Beginners" has a tv show that's like Buffy on shrooms/steroids, and "The Wizards of Perfil" is set in (mostly) your standard fantasy novel) but they are opened for examination, and then twisted--it's very uncomfortable, if fascinating, experience.
The stories don't end--they just stop. The closest comparison I can think of is the last episode of The Sopranos, and however you may have felt about that, in Kelly Link's case, it's like (to use another film/tv analogy) the ending of Chinatown--it stays with you, whether you like it or not.
I've finally screwed up my courage for another collection of short stories--a colleague loaned me The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (how's that for a name?), which Kelly Link co-edited, and contributed few of the stories. I imagine the others will make for a fine palate cleanser, and who knows, maybe I'll discover another writer with that sort of imagination....
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