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When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.Kelly Link
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You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.Kelly Link
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Jeremy and Karl and Elizabeth have known each other since the first day of kindergarten. Amy and Talis are a year younger.. Now the five are inseparable; invincible. They imagine that life will always be like this--like a television show in eternal syndication--that they will always have each other. They use the same vocabulary. They borrow each other's books and music. They share lunches, and they never say anything when Jeremy comes over and takes a shower. They all know Jeremy's father is eccentric. He's supposed to be eccentric. He's a novelist. .Kelly Link
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Wizards are always hungry.Kelly Link
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Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.Kelly Link
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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.Kelly Link
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There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book… Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait.Kelly Link