Bondage

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Kathe Koja lives in the Detroit area with her husband, artist Rick Lieder, and her son. Her Bram Stoker Award-winning debut novel,The Cipher, appeared in 1991, since when she has publishedBad Brains, Skin, Strange Angels andFamished, plus the short story collectionExtremities.

Her short fiction (including several collaborations with Barry N. Malzberg) has appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Dark Voices 3, 5 and6, Still Dead: Book of the Dead 2, A Whisper of Blood, Little Deaths, The Year’s Best Horror Stories andBest New Horror 3 and 5.

According to the author, “My own sense is that ‘Bondage’ is as close to a pure morality play as anything I’ve done.”

She was shaped like sculpture: high bones, high forehead, long fingers silver-cool against his skin as they lay side by side in the deep four-poster, princess-bed draped in lace and gauze and “Don’t ever buy me a ring,” she said; those fingers on his belly, up and down, up and down, tickling in his navel, playing with his balls. “I don’t like them.”

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