“Tenses! Tenses! Parse her tenses!” cries a member of the Kelly Link Discussion Group.

“Are her protagonists defined by schizophrenic breaks?” asks another, red-eyed and desperate. “Are they defined at all?”

“I just like the one about the TV show!” howls a third.

The members of the Kelly Link Discussion Group are deaf, and do not know it. They stumble about on the broken hooves of satyrs, cursed to walk like Isaac Laquedem. None of them can read each other’s lips.

Kelly Link is actually in the Kelly Link Discussion Group but she doesn’t feel she has much to contribute.