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Title: Those Little Deaths
Subtitle: A Short Story
Author: Mel Murphy
Narrator: Virginia Pettis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-08-17
Publisher: Mel Murphy
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A teenage girl struggles to survive coming of age in an abusive home in the rural American West. Niki is a 14-year-old girl with a horrific secret and a bottomless rage threatening to destroy her.
Members Reviews:
Unsatisfactory, objectionable
SPOILERS BELOW Even though I am usually a happy Mel Murphy reader, this one did not do it for me at all. Stories about painful topics can serve healthy purposes â encourage discussion, raise awareness, provide insight, blah blah blah, or they can be rather masturbatory, an excuse for semi-hysterics to really explore their capacity for inadequacy. This story is neither. It is nicely told, but the big reveal â that a dyke ainât nothing but a normal girl treated bad â is old, old hate propaganda, and itâs ridiculous. (Many horrible things happen to many, many women. Just try to imagine what the world would be like if that premise were true.) In spite of the stories about my old acquaintanceâs second cousinâs sister-in-lawâs âfriend,â I personally am convinced that lesbians tend to be lesbians because theyâre lesbians, not because theyâre victims. Mel is welcome to disagree, but I didnât find much of value in her story.
This is a hard review. If I were to ...
This is a hard review. If I were to judge the story on the quality of the writing I would give it a 5. However, the subject matter is so hard to read about, that it has 1 star entertainment value. The issues are important though, if you can handle it. She is a talented writer, but take her trigger warnings very seriously.
very dark uncomfortable spaces that people can occupy in their sad silence, places that most of us would not ...
This story captured my attention, both by title and cover alone; a powerful story. This story shows the very real, very dark uncomfortable spaces that people can occupy in their sad silence, places that most of us would not dream up in our darkest nightmares. This is only achieved by such detailed writing by Mel Murphy. This story left a lasting impression and has me reading more by the author.
Not fully detailed of her life.
I came out of this book as if so much had been left out. It could be more detail of her life.