Get in Trouble

Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Kelly Link is very imaginative. And it was entertaining to read some of the things she thinks up. However, there is something I don't understand about the art of the short story some authors use, which is to keep the reader wondering what really happened. Link employs that a lot. Like "The Summer People" reads like a novel that has the middle taken out, so you wonder how the ending came about. Other stories read like a puzzle jumping through space and time, and some are just cryptic. Despite wishing some of the stories were more clear, other stories were enchanting and I appreciated the art that went in to all of them. If I wanted to know more, it was just that the stories were that good.

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I'm the human equivalent of one of those baby birds that falls out of a nest and then some nice person picks the baby bird up and puts it back.  Except that now the baby bird smells all wrong.  I think I smell wrong.

Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison.  You have to keep it all inside.  Like throwing yourself on a. bomb to save everybody else.   Except youre the bomb.

"I thought they were more like a memory," Gwenda said.  "Not really there at all. Just an echo recorded somehow and played back, what they did, what happened to them."