Poor Damned Souls
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Love, suspicion, necrosis...
The ticking of The Money Store's 15-minute safe, the hum of fluorescents over gray carpet, the afterimage of a browser window, the weight of someone else's breath in your throat. What is a betrayal and how far can it go? Does it count if you cheat with a dead girl?
Poor Damned Souls is a drowning that never ends, a bleak and violent look into the psychological spiral of a woman convinced her partner is cheating when he's actually killing, and her subsequent deep dive into murder and the circumstances that lead there.
Charlene Elsby
Charlene Elsby is a philosophy doctor and former professor whose books include Hexis, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty, and Violent Faculties. Her short stories, essays and interviews have appeared in Southwest Review, Wanted, Bustle Books, The Chicago Review of Books, The Millions, and the LA Review of Books.
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