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Violence
Very heavy
Extreme graphic violence; self-harm and harm to others depicted in graphic detail
Language
A lot
Pervasive strong language
Sexual Content
Very heavy
Graphic and explicit sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Some substance use
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Extreme psychological darkness; the novella is designed to disturb profoundly
What this book is about
Two women meet online in a chat forum in 2000 and their correspondence — requests, confessions, demands — spirals from connection into something dark and mutually destructive. Eric LaRocca's novella is extreme horror with explicit content; it has been described as body horror, psychological horror, and transgressive fiction. Definitively for adults with a high tolerance for disturbing content.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Extreme graphic violence including self-harm
Graphic explicit sexual content
Extreme psychological horror
Adults with high tolerance only
Very short but very intense
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