Pretty Monsters

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Kelly Link. Pretty Monsters

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Contents

THE WRONG GRAVE

THE WIZARDS OF PERFIL

MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS

THE FAERY HANDBAG

THE SPECIALIST’S HAT

MONSTER

THE SURFER

THE CONSTABLE OF ABAL

PRETTY MONSTERS

THE CINDERELLA GAME

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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KELLY LINK is the author of three other collections, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners and Get in Trouble. Her stories have won three Nebula awards, a Hugo and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question ‘Why do you want to go around the world?’ (‘Because you can’t go through it.’)

Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.

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You tell them, Onion thought back at her. Having an invisible Halsa around, always telling him things that he already knew, was far worse than the real Halsa had been. The real Halsa was safe, asleep, on the pallet under the wizard’s stairs. Onion should have been there instead. Onion bet the wizards of Perfil were sorry that Tolcet had ever bought a girl like Halsa.

Halsa shoved past Onion. She put her invisible hands on her mother’s shoulders and looked into her face. Her mother didn’t look up. You have to get off the train, Halsa said. She yelled. get off the train!

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