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Kelly Link (born 1969) is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism. Among other honors, she has won a Hugo award, three Nebula awards, and a World Fantasy Award for her fiction.

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The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

Alarms, Clock, Evil, Forties, Men, Works

Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

Ching, Hurt, Hurts, Play, Reading, Remember

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

Blind, Eye, Eyes, Future, Views

You should never poison a witch.

Poison, Should, Witch

Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what seems to me absolutely essential to make the story work. I'm not usually an overwriter. As I revise, it's usually a matter of adding in as much vivid details as seem necessary to make the story come clear without slowing down the momentum of the story.

Details, Down, Essentials, Matter, Momentum, Work

We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned -- honey marooned -- on this bed for days.

Bed, Big, Moon, Suite, Sweet

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

Goodbye, Life, Proper, Series

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Friends, Girl, Girls, Inspirational, Monster, Teenager

What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up the gothic with a coming-of-age narrative. Telling a love story that's also a monster story. Mixing up superhero tropes with your monster tropes. I like category confusion.

Age, Confusion, Story, Superhero, Tropes

I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to the same music whenever I work on that story. It seems to help me keep in voice, and alternatively, if I need to make some kind of dramatic shift, I'll go and put on something different to shake myself awake. . .

Keep, Listening, Voice, Whenever, Writing

Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows.

Dating, Enough, Funny, Looking Good, Makeover, Reality

Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.

Enough, Faster, Moving, Satisfy

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

Canadians, Fool, People, Real, Zombie

There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they can be recognized in winter. But in summer, the living and dead may pass each other on the street, and no one knows the difference.

Difference, Hair, Like, Recognized, Summer, Winter

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

Buried, Firsts, Life, Place, Salvage

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

Customer, Firsts, Retail, Right, Sometimes

I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was the final authority on whether or not I was anything like a writer. (I'm a timid soul. ) I just kept writing stories, because becoming a veterinarian seemed as if it involved too much dissection.

Becoming, Soul, Thing, Veterinarian, Writer, Writing

You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It's hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart, and you weren't quite ready to give up on him yet.

Giving Up, Heart, Home, Shoes, Staying, Travel

No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

Kings, Soldier, Soldiers, Stopped, War, Worse

I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.

Damned, Giving Up, Ideas, Sit, Stories, Working

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