Captured in Amber

Not since Sigmund Freud unlocked and revealed the secrets of the Anna and the Wolfman has someone come out of Central Europe to define the contours of the human soul with so much searing honesty as Ella Veres. Drawing upon the intuitive insight of her Gypsy forebears, this pixie from the Pannonian puszta, has reached deeply into her own being and experience, drawing forth raw and pulsating morsels of flesh animated by the energizing flow of intimate and shameless memory. She spares no one, least of all her self, as she hunts for human truths through an infinity of contacts on the internet. Through assiduous pursuit of electronic links, she has been able to describe the intimate workings of nothing less than the entire human family, unmasking its members as the cunning, self deceiving, horny, vain, pathetic, though at times lovable, that they are.

--Kanuma Halfmice, staff writer Life and Literature