Lise Mette

“What the doctors didn’t tell me was how much I would change while watching her suffer. I shouldn’t be so surprised, though. Each thing we love takes a little piece of us whether we give it willingly or not. By the time we find the person we were meant to be with, we’re a honeycombed shell of what we once were. Each person we love turns us into the strange thing we become.”
― Eric LaRocca, The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

“What are you afraid of?” he asked. “Letting go, or being left with nothing to hold?”
― Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

“Did that thing just call me Papi?”
― Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

“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