Spirits are about obedience.
Wakes are about themselves.
Sera and Azel are about neither.
They could be about each other,
but Sera’s only passion is revenge.
And the only thing more powerful than revenge
is what she could become because of it,
the power deep inside her,
after everything goes red.

EJ Koh is a poet and an author.
Her work has been published in
TriQuarterly, Southeast Review, La Petite Zine,
The Journal, Susquehanna Review,
Gulf Stream, and elsewhere.
Poetry finalist of the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Prize.
Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University.
Red is her first novel.