The first sentence of the first story in Kelly Link’s new collection, Get in Trouble (Random House, $25), reads, “Fran’s daddy woke her up wielding a mister.” If you stop there, your mind goes to some strange places: a father waking up his child by menacingly waving another man around? Is he a giant? If you’ve read Kelly Link’s stories before, you know that certainly wouldn’t be uncharacteristic; her stories almost always involve at least one fantastic element. But no. The second sentence describes him “spritzing her like a wilted houseplant,” and suddenly the giant becomes a guy armed with a plastic spray bottle, an act of miraculous transmogrification in reverse. It’s just a tiny little trick with words, but it demonstrates the muscular sentence-to-sentence propulsion of a Link story…