Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Website:
horrorsong.blog
The Wingspan of Severed Hands
Invaginies
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The Couvade
Convulsive
The Shipwreck of the Cerberus
A very talented author sent me a message that they were re-reading this one & digging it & getting more out of it each time and that is the good stuff. Makes your heart burst.
This is one of my favourite Joe Koch stories, and that's saying something from a writer with such a sublime body of work. This is a story seething with grief, and anger, and sadness. There's raw passion in every word.
"The Power Company Detective", now free to read from Issue #12.

“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...