Derek Reilly

“It’s not long before I notice the unpleasant thoughts have subsided in my mind, flowering roots plucked from their beds of soil and dragged screaming.”
― Eric LaRocca, The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales

“Rifkin, at least, had been savvy enough to sprinkle his victims’ remains across the tristate area. Yet he suspected that they had a lot in common: growing up lonely, mocked, and bullied; grappling with anger. “America breeds serial killers,” Rifkin said. “You don’t see any from Europe.”
― Robert Kolker, Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery

“There was always that shadowy twin, thin when I was fat, fat when I was thin, myself in silvery negative, with dark teeth and shining white pupils glowing in the black sunlight of that other world. —Margaret Atwood”
― Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

“A giant hand pulls back a dark curtain from behind my eyes and I suddenly find myself in the kitchen at the stove.”
― Eric LaRocca, The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales