
And in a bedrock way, it reflects the greater and ongoing human condition: it can get very dark indeed past our little electric campfire, and in the end, all we've got is imagination to keep that darkness at bay. Scary, for sure, and apropos for this bleak time of year. Her production company, Loudermilk Productions LLC, creates site-specific performance events, including "Under the Poppy," "Bottom's Folly," "The Tower Project," and Christopher Marlowe's "Faustus."Īs you read this, I'll have just returned from Chicago's DePaul University, where – besides visiting an avant-garde haunted house, and meeting some of the student-artists – I'll have given a performative reading of my short story "At Eventide," wherein a young woman confronts the man who tried very hard to kill her, with only a boxful of art to stand between them.

Her 15 novels include The Cipher, Skin, Buddha Boy, Talk, Under the Poppy and its sequel, The Mercury Waltz, to be published in late 2013. Kathe Koja is a Detroit-based writer and producer.
