Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.