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A Shiny for Trick
We have all lost something. But where does stuff go when it’s lost?
Trick loves stuff, as all Nomchai do. She lives in a world of lost things, where she collects and wears misplaced keys. Every lost key belongs to exactly one magical box which contains exactly one missing item from the human world. She loves the strange objects inside each box above all others for a short amount of time. When she tires of her new favorite treasure, she finds the one person in her world that is looking for it and returns it.
Trick exists only to return lost stuff to where it belongs. It’s a joyful existence. A quiet, aware one. A private existence. And that suits her just fine.
Until she finds something so wonderful she doesn’t want to give it back.
A Shiny for Trick is a short work of fiction set in Traverse City, Michigan, during one of the area’s most beloved festivals.
Trick loves stuff, as all Nomchai do. She lives in a world of lost things, where she collects and wears misplaced keys. Every lost key belongs to exactly one magical box which contains exactly one missing item from the human world. She loves the strange objects inside each box above all others for a short amount of time. When she tires of her new favorite treasure, she finds the one person in her world that is looking for it and returns it.
Trick exists only to return lost stuff to where it belongs. It’s a joyful existence. A quiet, aware one. A private existence. And that suits her just fine.
Until she finds something so wonderful she doesn’t want to give it back.
A Shiny for Trick is a short work of fiction set in Traverse City, Michigan, during one of the area’s most beloved festivals.
51 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 9, 2017
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S.K. Balk
2 books7 followersS. K. Balk lives in the frozen wastelands of Northern Michigan with her husband, roommate, and two dogs. As a career, she works in blood banking as a coordinator and in the laboratory, and writes in her spare time.
Other than writing, she has far too many hobbies to occupy her time, including hunting, fishing, sewing, reading, playing video games, orchestrating Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, and doing whatever she can to save the world.
Her first novel, THE BLOOD OF NERYS, was published February 26, 2016.
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Other than writing, she has far too many hobbies to occupy her time, including hunting, fishing, sewing, reading, playing video games, orchestrating Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, and doing whatever she can to save the world.
Her first novel, THE BLOOD OF NERYS, was published February 26, 2016.
Join her mailing list if you dare to fraternize with madness (or if you just want a first look at all of her books).
https://tinyletter.com/SKBalk
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December 30, 2017
The introduction was really good and I loved it. The place where all our lost objects were sounded amazing to me and I couldn't wait to read the book.
But the book in itself was extremely disappointing because, let's be clear, nothing happens. I read half the book before giving up because I couldn't see the interest in the book.
We're following Trick which is spending all her time being happy. It's literally the purpose of her life. She's happy to look for keys, she's happy when she finds a box, she's happy when she finds the good key for the box, she's happy when she opens the box, she's happy to play with what is inside the box, she's happy to hand over the object to its owner and then she's happy to go through the entire process all over again...
The idea was really great but I think it has been really poorly used.
But the book in itself was extremely disappointing because, let's be clear, nothing happens. I read half the book before giving up because I couldn't see the interest in the book.
We're following Trick which is spending all her time being happy. It's literally the purpose of her life. She's happy to look for keys, she's happy when she finds a box, she's happy when she finds the good key for the box, she's happy when she opens the box, she's happy to play with what is inside the box, she's happy to hand over the object to its owner and then she's happy to go through the entire process all over again...
The idea was really great but I think it has been really poorly used.
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