The Wingspan of Severed Hands

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  • Three
  • Women,
  • One
  • Battle A
  • world
  • gone
  • mad.
  • Cities
  • abandoned.
  • Dreams
  • invade
  • waking
  • minds.
  • An
  • invisible
  • threat
  • lures
  • those
  • who
  • oppose
  • its
  • otherworldly
  • violence
  • to
  • become
  • acolytes
  • of
  • a
  • nameless
  • cult.
  • As
  • a
  • teenage
  • girl
  • struggles
  • for
  • autonomy,
  • a
  • female
  • weapons
  • director
  • in
  • a
  • secret
  • research
  • facility
  • develops
  • a
  • living
  • neuro-cognitive
  • device
  • that
  • explodes
  • into
  • self-awareness.
  • Discovering
  • their
  • hidden
  • emotional
  • bonds,
  • all
  • three
  • unveil
  • a
  • common
  • enemy
  • through
  • dissonant
  • realities
  • that
  • intertwine
  • in
  • a
  • cosmic
  • battle
  • across
  • hallucinatory
  • dreamscapes. Time
  • is
  • the
  • winning
  • predator,
  • and
  • every
  • moment
  • spirals
  • deeper
  • into
  • the
  • heart
  • of
  • the
  • beast."I'm
  • awestruck
  • by
  • Joe
  • Koch's
  • nonstop
  • spellbinding,
  • almost
  • paralyzingly
  • inventive
  • and
  • yet
  • propulsive,
  • ultra-focused
  • prose.
  • The
  • Wingspan
  • of
  • Severed
  • Hands
  • is
  • a
  • truly
  • amazing
  • find."
  • -
  • Dennis
  • Cooper
  • (The
  • Sluts,
  • The
  • Marbled
  • Swarm)"Koch's
  • latest
  • novella
  • is
  • what
  • might
  • have
  • happened
  • if
  • Robert
  • W.
  • Chambers
  • had
  • been
  • a
  • surrealist
  • with
  • a
  • penchant
  • for
  • body
  • horror.
  • A
  • strange
  • trip
  • to
  • Carcosa
  • offered
  • in
  • thickly
  • evocative
  • language,
  • The
  • Wingspan
  • of
  • Severed
  • Hands
  • is
  • a
  • highly
  • original
  • hallucination."
  • -
  • Brian
  • Evenson
  • (Song
  • For
  • the
  • Unraveling
  • of
  • the
  • World,
  • A
  • Collapse
  • of
  • Horses)"The
  • Wingspan
  • of
  • Severed
  • Hands
  • is
  • a
  • brilliant
  • and
  • uniquely
  • voiced
  • blend
  • of
  • body
  • horror
  • and
  • Chambers-esque
  • cosmic
  • horror
  • that
  • never
  • loses
  • sight
  • of
  • its
  • humanity.
  • Joe
  • Koch
  • is
  • a
  • brave
  • new
  • voice
  • in
  • weird
  • literature
  • and
  • horror."
  • -
  • Jack
  • Zipes
  • (Literature
  • and
  • Literary
  • Theory:
  • Fairy
  • Tales
  • and
  • the
  • Art
  • of Subversion)
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