My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.
In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.