As much about concealment as about revelation

Excerpt from Contributors' Notes at the end of Best American Short Stories of 2005.

Sometimes I think all good short stories function as ghost stories, in which the people, themes, events that grip an individual writer occur again and again like a haunting. Readers, too, can be hautned by stories. As for this story, something about painting and re-painting the rooms of a newly purchased house, now that I think about it, seems like a writerly metaphor. (Or perhaps a re-writerly metaphor.) Like ghost stories, and like the act of writing - and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting - the work is as much about concealment as it is about revelation. - Kelly Link

Stone Animals by Kelly Link is one of the 4 or 5 short stories from the collection that I am yet to read. Never heard of her before .... her writing seems to have gotten some rave reviews. And her website says a new collection will be out in October.

Naah...too many things to read. But I will get to Stone Animals later this week -- a review of that particular story is here, if you are interested.