Joe Koch > Quotes

“The future is old and patient. Time is the winning predator, and every moment spirals deeper into the heart of the beast.”
― Joanna Koch, The Wingspan of Severed Hands

“Rising like giant breakers, cascading over boundaries as if Adira were a ship and her tongue the storm-lashed deck, the motion of the mind beyond the hairless portal of the solitary hidden eye crashing in and out, up and down, until the stringy wriggling worm thoughts broke out. Fever smashing like glass threads, a million eager maggots, Adira vomited up the odor of burnt chocolate and neglected meat.”
― Joe Koch, The Wingspan of Severed Hands

“Unfortunates, innocents, soldiers, and priests were lost to the wild, as if humankind had lived too long in self-domesticated, communal captivity and craved a cosmic fate. The new primal human exploded both modern culture and ancient sacrificial myth. Blasting away the last shabby remnants of the comfortable cage, they worshiped something darker, less human, less animal. Less earthly.”
― Joe Koch, The Wingspan of Severed Hands

“of redacted lines pinches her mouth shut. Never tell. Don’t bother to scream. Don’t cry for help. The call is coming from inside your mouth.”
― Joe Koch, Convulsive

“Conscious of the eyes ogling his handsome body, Hayden shifts the cage of skin containing the raw meat of nothingness that feeds the sharks of time inside him.”
― Joe Koch, Convulsive