7/4/2023 0 Comments Koja the cipher![]() ![]() Highly recommended for readers who love dark fiction written in a literary style. My personal favorites in the collection included one of the new stories, “Marble Lily,” along with “At Eventide” and “Pas de Deux.” Although this was my first foray into Koja’s work, it will definitely not be my last. Strong feelings of loss, fear, death and compromise haunt these characters and stories, and they stayed with me for a long time. ![]() If her stories had a color, to me it would be Cimmerian gray (with the occasional red accent). And she creates so much wicked atmosphere, to the point, that even though sometimes I didn’t completely follow what I was reading, it didn’t matter, I was still happy to be there. Koja controls the experience with every word. There is an urgent, restless, sometimes chaotic, energy to the writing that permeates every story, every sentence. Like a fine restaurant, she provides an experience that is unlike any this reviewer has encountered. ![]() ![]() In reading this collection, one thing becomes immediately clear: Koja is a master prose stylist. Kathe Koja ( The Cipher, Extremities) brings us 13 stories, 2 previously unpublished, in her new collection Velocities: Stories. ![]()
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