Reactions - Reading & Greeting

After reading Samantha Hunt's stories and meeting with her today, it was insightful and so inspirational.  I really enjoyed meeting with her.  I love when she was talking about the idea that just because things aren't real doesn't mean they're not important to our everyday lives.  In all her stories the characters reach their moment of darkness, which was exactly why I love that she went with "The Dark Dark" instead of "The Beast" for the title.  Also, with the magic concept, I caught myself being confused in the stories, "Cortes the Killer" and "The House Began to Pitch"because I was waiting for their magic moments.  I was waiting for Beatrice's horse to come from the ice and Ada to do something to Chuck.  "The House Began to Pitch" was very confusing for me in the beginning, but the ending it all ties together about why she'd rather lie about why she left instead of saying the truth.  Ada's story was just all together so powerful and I feel like she is a metaphor that shows her strength to fight through anything, like the hurricane thats formulating in the story.  It's also really interesting now that we've met Samantha Hunt to read her stories and have them open new doors for our reading because now we have a better understanding of her whole process and just the entire motive for all the stories she created that have a piece of her in all of them.