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Finished Purgatory. Start of book 3: Heaven.

156* Another terrifyingly realistic one. The lengths that some men will go to, regardless of the other wrongdoings at hand.

143* Realistic to a terrifying degree. Sad, owch.

139* Ghost? Mental illness? Curious!

138* No time for clowning around!

Terrifyingly real analogy for domestic abuse. I'll have to think on if the plant baby's initial death is literal or metaphorical.

Hard to feel sorry for the protagonist of this one. Symbolic of a very real horror.

Generally solid premise for short story decently delivered. The cuts to each character bit by bit and the descriptions are clear and vivid. The allegory feels a little here and there. Reading it either way, in nature being nature, then the rape feels unnecessary, but as an allegory for how experiencing those traumas feels all consuming, it's iffy but it can work.

Third short story. Possibly my favourite so far. The threat lies in many a folklore, and the ambiguous end makes a beautiful scene. It reads like the starting scene of a movie, the end a cut to black that near mimics the eyes of the beast before the rest begins, having set the brutal tone. Gorgeous.