Minicomments
Rebecca Cox gives the digital realm a run for its money. Spinning novels of experience in tight spaces—yes, less than a paragraph, girls—she conjures forth the literary world for the byte generation. Never mind her characters, it’s her readers who fall in love: entangled in the written word again. - T. Rothman
Each story carries a weight that stands in stark contrast to its brevity, a thoughtful, haunting quality that never fails to elicit a response. Rebecca is a master at calling forth emotions that someone with less courage might push aside, allowing them to surface and breathe. Her writing provides an honest reflection on what it is to be human. - K. Kang
Rebecca Cox’s fiction is honed with a scalpel. She tells a novel’s worth of story in a savory bite. Wit, angst, irony, passion, desperation and surprise tied up in a perfect knot with heartstrings. - S. Allen
From the first word, you find yourself transported to that time, place, and even more incredibly, into the characters themselves. I have been the girl on the bus, the mom at the zoo, the wife looking at a computer screen, the nurse afraid of her own mortality and life…They punch you in the stomach, leave you reeling, and begging for more…much more. Ms. Cox is a master of language, emotions, and humanity. - S. Anderson
They hit you with a world, draw you in, and you find yourself living there even after the world goes by—like seeing a scene in the subway car across the tracks, just enough to give you the essentials, along with a voice that directs you to look beyond yourself. - J. Ernest
You can keep reading them over & over, like looking through a prism. - P. Fier
it’s amazing how she makes me want more, but satisfied with the little piece broke off to me. they are not lacking, full in their singular paragraphness. (as well as the rare two paragrapher.) - S. Berry
RC’s words slice through to the heaviness of love and loss. Her stories have a fantastic Steinbeck quality to them. I say this because in reading the stories I forget when and where they might be taking place. I am reminded through her prose that the joys and tragedies that come with being human are a permanent part of our story. - S. Frost
i only allowed myself one like a truffle, well like others eat truffles … but so look forward to returning again and again. tramway is a fine piece of writing, funny, poignant. - l.hanson
very sad, very funny, very intelligent - so highly personal that i wonder whether they are fact or fiction. are they drawn from your fertile, tumescent, and outrageous imagination? or are these brief, cogent missives drawn from your probing and unflinching self-examination? or are they both? i don’t really care to know where they come from, they’re all just a damn good read. my faves are fete, valentine and silver. - b. criswell
These stories are quietly bursting with truths that make you stop and catch your breath. The author has taken the intricacies of love, intimacy and loss and artfully constructed them into invitations that tempt us to let down our guard and co-mingle with the characters. In reading through these stories, tempted to read them two or three times apiece, I had one of those rare moments in life where you feel like you’ve been caught, that something personal and hidden has been revealed and in that moment of recognition there is relief, perhaps laughter, or perhaps a small loosening on the choke-hold of sadness that we all carry with us. - r. umerlik
i loved Fete, so creepy and perfect. And Elms, i felt out of breathe reading it. wow. wonderful. - m. sullivan
…lovely, and dark, and heartbreaking, and real. - l. pereira
I love Angelic. The whole rhythm reminds me of playing pool. Slow, deliberate and then PUNCH! She got punched with love and heartache at the same time. Poor thing. I love your writing. - j. civiello
Elms is evocative without being fully explicit. Very very cool. I was happy to see my image up on your blog, - thanks! I read something recently that speaks to some of your writing: “A higher truth, though only dimly hinted at, thrills us more than a lower expressed.” (Thoreau) - a. de steiguer
