The Girl Detective
by Kelly Link
46 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
1999
"Think of the underworld as the back of your closet, behind all those racks of clothes that you don't wear anymore. Things are always getting pushed back there and forgotten about. The underworld is full of things that you've forgotten about."
First published in Event Horizon in 1999. Later reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection and Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen, a Salon Book of the Year and one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Categories: 2006 Release, 20th Century AD, 30-60 minutes, Adventure, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fantasy, Fiction, Free, Kelly Link, Podcast, Popular Author, SF Story, Short Story, Speculative
Get the full text of Stranger Things Happen
Purchase Stranger Things Happen in print/book form at Amazon.com via this link and The Project gets a small percentage of the purchase price. [new window]
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46 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
1999
"Think of the underworld as the back of your closet, behind all those racks of clothes that you don't wear anymore. Things are always getting pushed back there and forgotten about. The underworld is full of things that you've forgotten about."
First published in Event Horizon in 1999. Later reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection and Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen, a Salon Book of the Year and one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Categories: 2006 Release, 20th Century AD, 30-60 minutes, Adventure, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fantasy, Fiction, Free, Kelly Link, Podcast, Popular Author, SF Story, Short Story, Speculative
Get the full text of Stranger Things Happen
Purchase Stranger Things Happen in print/book form at Amazon.com via this link and The Project gets a small percentage of the purchase price. [new window]
Kelly Link is the author of the collection Magic for Beginners, editor of the anthology Trampoline, and co-editor of the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. With Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant, she edits The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's Press). She 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. Website [new window]
"Link's writing is gorgeous, mischievous, sexy and unsettling." -Nalo Hopkinson.
Alex Wilson is a writer and stage/film actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. He starred in the North American Premiere of Richard Taylor's musical Whistle Down the Wind and recently filmed The Third Cord with Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido. His animated comics-parody film All's Fair in Love and Police Actions was recently selected as an iFilm Pick. He is the founder of Telltale Weekly and Spoken Alexandria. See his website for more. [new windows, all].
Posted by alex at August 30, 2006 9:21 PM




