![]() ![]() In ’89, as televisions flickered history and David Hasselhoff sang “Looking for Freedom,” Kiesbye found his home forever changed. “The culture was super vibrant.” While in Berlin, Kiesbye picked up writing from a close friend, and though their paths later diverged, writing stuck. In a post WWII Berlin, Kiesbye found an artistic center: “The allies and West Germany poured tons of money into Berlin to make it a showcase of the free world-there was always money for theatres and opera,” Kiesbye says. ![]() ![]() Originally from Germany, Kiesbye was born on the Baltic Sea’s coast and moved to Berlin in the 1980s. And KFSF chops, prods, cuts and burns deep-blood letting for a miracle. He takes the ground out from under the reader. Kiesbye himself is not wicked he just flirts with wickedness. Author of Next Door Lived a Girl (winner of the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award), Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Gone, The Staked Plains ( reviewed by SLUG in 2015) and now KFSF. In the prologue of Stefan Kiesbye’s newest novel, Knives, Forks, Scissors, Flames, we are met with an atmosphere of death, mystery and occultism before we learn a single character’s name. ![]()
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