HOLY SHIT, but also holy shit. Catherynne M. Valente is a genius. How the hell. I cannot fathom how she wrote this. Such a beautiful Labrinth of stories. Each so different, each so beautiful. You get that exciting little kick of learning something new of someone you knew from a story before when they meet someone you've been following. Which sounds confusing but it was so easy to follow. It just was hard to explain to people what I was reading.