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We Can Never Leave This Place
by Eric LaRocca
“From baby teeth to virginity, to live is to regularly suffer loss. However, I scarcely expected to lose everything I’ve ever loved in a single moment.”
Eric LaRocca is a master of setting the feeling of a scene, he brings you into the velvety embrace of his world with what seems to be little effort. Eric creates a unique mix of madness and reality the likes of which I’ve never seen, the whole thing is a wild bizarre nightmare sequence that somehow flows smoothly like a deep wide sewer.
For such a short story, I took a lot of notes. I was reminded of Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka for a couple reasons. First, there is a cockroach in the story, but mainly because when I read the classic Kafka story in high school, our version had the story followed by several essays by notable people on their interpretation of the story. I could easily see this story following that example. It would make for very interesting discussions.
Be prepared to squirm as you are pulled through your emotions of empathy, revulsion, and horror.
“What are you afraid of?” he asked, “letting go or being left with nothing to hold.”
Eric LaRocca is a master of setting the feeling of a scene, he brings you into the velvety embrace of his world with what seems to be little effort. Eric creates a unique mix of madness and reality the likes of which I’ve never seen, the whole thing is a wild bizarre nightmare sequence that somehow flows smoothly like a deep wide sewer.
For such a short story, I took a lot of notes. I was reminded of Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka for a couple reasons. First, there is a cockroach in the story, but mainly because when I read the classic Kafka story in high school, our version had the story followed by several essays by notable people on their interpretation of the story. I could easily see this story following that example. It would make for very interesting discussions.
Be prepared to squirm as you are pulled through your emotions of empathy, revulsion, and horror.
“What are you afraid of?” he asked, “letting go or being left with nothing to hold.”