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We Can Never Leave This Place
by Eric LaRocca
“What are you afraid of?” he asked. “Letting go, or being left with nothing to hold?”
In a militia dystopian environment, Mara, a young girl with a vivid imagination, is trying to survive alongside her resentful mother. When her father’s body gets dropped off at their front door by a couple militia soldiers, the structure of her family begins to crumble. Furthermore, her mother has started to invite some unwanted guests in their home in a poor attempt to mitigate the family’s stress. Or maybe just to relieve her own. Only, these guests don’t help. No, they take.
LaRocca’s new novella is imaginative and unlike anything I’ve ever read. It’s a fever dream of grief and sorrow tied together with an infinite possibility of metaphors. I think some of it went over my head, I might not have totally grasped the moral in the end, but I felt an array of emotions while reading—anxiety, sorrow, pain. The house guests were sufficiently creepy and I was enraged by their unwanted entry. The mother reminded me a bit of other mother but worse and I wanted the best for Mara despite all the sharp obstacles thrown her way. Truly one to pull at the black and white spectrum of emotions.
We Can Never Leave this Place is set to release June 24th from JournalStone. If you’re a fan of LaRocca, surreal nightmare worlds, and grief horror, be sure to stay on the lookout!
In a militia dystopian environment, Mara, a young girl with a vivid imagination, is trying to survive alongside her resentful mother. When her father’s body gets dropped off at their front door by a couple militia soldiers, the structure of her family begins to crumble. Furthermore, her mother has started to invite some unwanted guests in their home in a poor attempt to mitigate the family’s stress. Or maybe just to relieve her own. Only, these guests don’t help. No, they take.
LaRocca’s new novella is imaginative and unlike anything I’ve ever read. It’s a fever dream of grief and sorrow tied together with an infinite possibility of metaphors. I think some of it went over my head, I might not have totally grasped the moral in the end, but I felt an array of emotions while reading—anxiety, sorrow, pain. The house guests were sufficiently creepy and I was enraged by their unwanted entry. The mother reminded me a bit of other mother but worse and I wanted the best for Mara despite all the sharp obstacles thrown her way. Truly one to pull at the black and white spectrum of emotions.
We Can Never Leave this Place is set to release June 24th from JournalStone. If you’re a fan of LaRocca, surreal nightmare worlds, and grief horror, be sure to stay on the lookout!