Given

Today I have a new short story featured in Shortwave magazine online. It’s free to read. I hope you’ll take a moment to check it out.

Part corporate horror, part identity horror, Given is part of my recent experimentation with more simplified language. I’m not giving up on purple prose and wild flights of fanciful obscure language; but having pushed that envelope further than many readers could tolerate, I wanted to explore something more direct, streamlined, and yet just as intricately made.

“This is my design.”

Read “Given” in Shortwave Magazine.

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Published by: Joe

Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Their books include The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Invaginies, Convulsive, and The Couvade, which received a Shirley Jackson Award nomination in 2019. His short work appears in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Southwest Review, Nightmare Magazine, Vastarien, The Mad Butterfly's Ball, and many others. Find Joe (he/they) online at horrorsong.blog.

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