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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes

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While I didn’t love the former (3⭐️), I did really enjoy the latter (5⭐️) and thought it was another extremely effective short story. I'm not a big fan of gore and I honestly felt as if some of those elements could have been removed and it wouldn't have taken away from the overall story. I had so much fun reading this novella, gawking at some of the insanity as things started to get weird. To check out more like this, feel free to read my review of Eric’s novella Starving Ghosts In Every Thread, my interview with Eric, or a cover reveal post for A Bright Enchanted Suffering! The form is familiar, but its narrative is ground-breaking in its exploration of the darker side of online queer ‘safe’ spaces.

One lonely woman sells a family heirloom to another, and the two dive into a whirlwind of toxic self-disclosure.Further disclaimer: Readers, please stop accusing me of trying to take down “my competition” because I wrote a review you didn’t like. Overall, this feels like mostly fluff and the shock values (which tend to be more animal cruelty stories than anything else and very little sexuality unless you consider the line ‘ if I were a black hole, I’d swallow you and shit you out in tiny pieces’ to be sexy) are sort of run-of-the-mill to be honest and feels like Carmen Maria Machado-lite. The remainder is inoffensive at best, forgettable at worst — if you're expecting a consistent caliber as THGWSWLS, you may find the overall experience a slight letdown . Social media spheres have proven to massively affect best seller’s lists and publishing trends—for better or worse—but so far TikTok seems to be the platform that really moves books.

In certain respects this is reminiscent of old school Clive Barker too, but I can’t put my finger on exactly why.

Perhaps it is that I am old and seen too much but the BDSM elements in the first story were not all that shocking to me. my mind gets increasingly more curious until I can finally get my greedy hands on a copy for myself. I still believe that this book is lesbian trauma porn and badly written, but I don't want to misgender the author as that's not right to do.

it's just a bunch of wordy descriptions of "dark" scenes that lack depth but are certainly full of superfluous language.I usually find with horror novellas that I either don’t care much about the story or I would’ve needed more for it to be effective, but this was truly the perfect novella and it was exactly what I’ve been looking for. Full disclosure: I was a beta reader for this story and then re-read it once it officially launched and I was able to purchase a copy. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s-a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires.

Originally published on its own, it was later reprinted with two additional stories as Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes.first shows up as part of a story Zoe tells, and is referenced a few times afterwards, usually in reference to Zoe's psychological hold over Agnes. In this bleak and disturbingly erotic debut novel, iconoclast Chandler Morrison provides readers with a dark exploration of the nature of death, individuality, and generational identity. Final Thoughts: Most of the time it feels as though this author sets you up with an interesting story with descripitive details for it, only to pull the rug from under you and NONE of that mattered. Eric LaRocca's 'Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke' is a masterpiece of epistolary body horror. Anyway, Agnes comes back to Zoe, because she's a simp and an idiot (there is no other explanation) and they start all over with the baby/mommy stuff.

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