**Contains major spoilers!** 
 I really enjoyed this horrifying take to the future, it's pretty original and creepy. There were some cliche stuff (the Cinderella moment) and some unbelievable parts that I rolled my eyes at, but overall the story was great and interesting and full of twists. So much happened in such a short story. One thing that annoyed me was the kind-of-love-triangle, that left me sort of unattached to the main character. 
 I can't get over the plot twists at the end and the the fact that my main theory was kind of correct. I played with the idea of Blake being the Old Man in my mind then he kind of was (except it was the other way around...). I was really mindblown by that and then the fact that the Old Man got into Callie's head. AND 'When hawks cry, it's time to fly'. What's Callie's dad's role in this? I have my own theories and I'll see about them in Enders. 
 The edition I read includes a short story called Portrait of the Spore, and I will just say that it was kind of creepy and heartbreaking.