In doing this, in a way that other horror novels do not, we become active peeping toms in the lives of two women we do not know, never will know, and who shared an extraordinarily short, yet damning, experience together that was intended to remain private. But we suspend our disbelief and believe that it did. This dichotomy plays at the centre of the reader’s response to this novella. None of these words were supposed to be read by anyone else yet they were written for publication. The Brilliance of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke As you glance through the pages, you begin to remember snippets of your own IM’s back in High School, and are equally glad that they have been lost to the annuls of the internet.īy giving a brief Author’s Note at the beginning of the novella (the one I presume is written by a fictitious writer) qualifies everything you read after it in a way that makes you feel like you are trespassing. What’s smart about this form of writing is that it is both nostalgic and innovative. But it would have been hard for LaRocca to structure their narrative without it. That’s not to say that the constant time stamps and email address repetition was read meticulously in the one sitting it took me to finish this novella, because I indeed did not do that.
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