but a black cat crossed my trail” sparked my interest in how superstitions affect adoptions of black cats and dogs. Interestingly, I found out that there is a difference in the adoption rates for ...

Each story in White Cat, Black Dog is explicitly linked to a specific fairy tale. Link’s affinity for fairy tales is partly thematic—her work is full of such magical motifs as talking animals ...

It’s probably impossible to settle on a definition for the fairy tale, but let’s try this: a story of fantasy that has human heroes and a happy ending. The wiggle room here is enormous.

“White Cat, Black Dog,” her fifth collection, is a set of seven slipstream short stories that edge, in length, toward novelettes. Where her earlier collections were anchored by a ...

In her newest short story collection, “White Cat, Black Dog,” Kelly Link draws inspiration from a variety of fairy-tales to create a collection of twisting stories that blur the boundaries ...