When I was very young, my grandmother told me a story about how her mother – an immigrant from Naples – had desperately longed for a proper apple peeler in order to make a traditional apple pie. I was going to begin this with some absurd comment about the irony of posting about an apple peeler in a queer discussion forum when most of us are probably triggered by the mere mention of the word “fruit.”Įvery family has a myth for the young to inherit – an undocumented fable passed between mouths, a grave illness to be contracted – as if the very words were a blight to infect the youth with and let them know they’re now welcome to the fold.Īfter all, what exactly is a family, if not a brotherhood and sisterhood afflicted with the same terminal disease? ![]() POST WRITTEN BY AGNES PETRELLA ON ONLINE QUEER COMMUNITY BOARDĪntique Apple Peeler with Vibrant History for SaleĪsking Price: $250 The author remains a nonpartisan entity and instead patiently waits for the balances of justice to tip in favor of the truth. The author wishes to extend their heartfelt gratitude to the Henley’s Edge Police Department, specifically Captain Gregory Deacon and Judge Louis Urchek for their amenableness and unwavering support throughout the course of composing this publication.Īlso, the author of this publication requests that the reader be cognizant of the fact that the author is in no way affiliated with either Zoe Cross’s legal counsel or Agnes Petrella’s surviving family. The author has noticeably marked these redacted elements with The absent contents remain in the archives of the Henley’s Edge Police Department and are strictly forbidden from being removed from their records. What Have You Done Today To Deserve Your Eyes?Īs there has already been an overwhelming amount of conjecture and vitriol – especially in the dominion of online discussion – regarding the untimely demise of Agnes Petrella at the age of twenty-four, the author of this text has tenderly and judiciously compiled the following content with the hope of enlightening the public by publishing the contents of her correspondence with Zoe Cross in the several months prior to her death.īecause the litigation surrounding Zoe Cross’s case remains open at the time of this publication, certain elements of their communication have been redacted or censored at the behest of the Henley’s Edge Police Department. Things have gotten better since we first met. ![]() No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitiou s manner. “Eric LaRocca is a fierce talent that knows no limit, masterful and utterly unmissable!”Ĭopyright © 2021 by Eric LaRocca, Artists, Weirdpunk BooksĬover art by Kim Jakobsson (Cover Design by Ira Rat (Editing and internal layout/formatting by Sam Richard Tyler Jones (Criterium, The Dark Side of the Room) "With darkly poetic prose and chilling stories that peel back layers of skin to reveal a beating, bloody heart, Eric LaRocca is the clear literary heir of Clive Barker." LaRocca skillfully weaves a grotesque, unforgettable page-turner of manipulation and depravity." "Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a tight, merciless epistolary, each piece of correspondence coiling the reader around its finger and never letting go. ![]() "Part Dennis Cooper's The Sluts, part David Cronenberg's The Brood.Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a masterpiece of epistolary body horror." ![]() This is one deeply fucked-up heartbreaker. A hauntingly elegant, masterfully written, and ultimately devastating indictment of cruel manipulation and even crueler submission. What starts as sweetly genteel swiftly descends into everything that's brutalizingly ugly about the abusive master/slave dynamic. "When broken people do broken things - especially in the name of love - we all get broken, too. “A startling affair.I’ll be cleaning up particles of darkness in my office for weeks.”
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