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A review by richardleis
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
4.0
Despite my love of horror, I haven't really pushed my limits content-wise until recently. It's scary stuff!
I'd say "Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke" is the most disturbing piece of horror I've ever read.
Eric LaRocca's epistolary novella begins with a post on an online LGBTQ+ forum written by a young woman who is offering an antique apple peeler for sale. A couple days later, another young woman responds that she's interested in buying the antique. There's the online sharing of details, backgrounds, sweet stories about grandparents, and then an incredible act of generosity, and then...
OMG WHAT ARE THEY DOING!!!???
And it just escalates from there into some of the most disturbing prose and body horror I have ever read that occasionally made me nauseous. There was lots of scrunching of my face and ewwwing and NO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? until the shattering end.
It's pretty great, despite going there and then beyond and then pretty much leaving me behind green yet glad I challenged myself, because there are a lot of themes and insights bubbling below the gruesome surface. I will definitely be reading more of LaRocca's work.
4 out of 5 stars. I'm not sure I could suspend my disbelief for some of the leaps forward, but, my goodness, what a wild, nauseating ride.
I'd say "Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke" is the most disturbing piece of horror I've ever read.
Eric LaRocca's epistolary novella begins with a post on an online LGBTQ+ forum written by a young woman who is offering an antique apple peeler for sale. A couple days later, another young woman responds that she's interested in buying the antique. There's the online sharing of details, backgrounds, sweet stories about grandparents, and then an incredible act of generosity, and then...
OMG WHAT ARE THEY DOING!!!???
And it just escalates from there into some of the most disturbing prose and body horror I have ever read that occasionally made me nauseous. There was lots of scrunching of my face and ewwwing and NO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? until the shattering end.
It's pretty great, despite going there and then beyond and then pretty much leaving me behind green yet glad I challenged myself, because there are a lot of themes and insights bubbling below the gruesome surface. I will definitely be reading more of LaRocca's work.
4 out of 5 stars. I'm not sure I could suspend my disbelief for some of the leaps forward, but, my goodness, what a wild, nauseating ride.