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  • Severance is to Hostel as Shaun of the Dead is to Night of the Living Dead.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 5/15. 2007

  • "Severance is pleasantly shoddy, and the movie knocks about like a jerky haunted house ride with a few detours to the fun house," writes Jürgen Fauth.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 5/16. 2007

  • Still another example of his ability to get into the "head" of his characters has yet to make it to the U.S. — a forthcoming collection titled Severance is comprised of sixty prose poems, each from the perspective of a head severed from a guillotine.

    Faraway Voices 2004

  • Still another example of his ability to get into the "head" of his characters has yet to make it to the U.S. — a forthcoming collection titled Severance is comprised of sixty prose poems, each from the perspective of a head severed from a guillotine.

    Faraway Voices 2004

  • Still another example of his ability to get into the "head" of his characters has yet to make it to the U.S. — a forthcoming collection titled Severance is comprised of sixty prose poems, each from the perspective of a head severed from a guillotine.

    Faraway Voices 2004

  • I've got no such reservations about "Severance" - it's funny, it's scary, and genuinely original all at the same time.

    Filmstalker: New Severance clip online 2007

  • His last book, "Severance," was told through the voices of recently severed heads.

    Sex, Lies and Pillow Talk 2008

  • His last book, "Severance," was 62 short stories, told through the voices of recently severed heads.

    Sex, Lies and Pillow Talk 2008

  • And sware, if Time unite us twain once more, * 'Severance' shall never sound from tongue of mine:

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • (Nights vol. ii., p. 46.) [FN#133] As opposed to "Severance" in the old knightly language of love, which is now apparently lost to the world.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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