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About the Author

Because then I’d never stop thinking, don’t want to hurt anyone, but I’d rather it be king but that.

Love is a hole in the heart.

—Ben Hecht

KATHE KOJA has, at various times, been a bonsai lumberjack, an oyster cowboy, and a freelance criminologist. She lives on the outskirts of Detroit, aka Motor or Murder City, with artist Rick Lieder and her son. Her stories have appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Her highly acclaimed short story, “Distances!” appeared in Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction #6 and Orbit.