We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sacred and no one is safe. A landscape of urban decay and human degradation, this collection finds the psychic pressure points of us all, and giddily squeezes. Try to run, try to hide, but there is no escape: we are here to hurt each other. CONTENT WARNINGS FOUND INSIDE BOOK"My god, this book. Where do I even begin? The exquisite language. The devastation. The slow, creeping dread. Truly masterful. I’m a new and devoted fan of Paula D. Ashe."—Eric LaRocca author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke“Gooey, gory and utterly mesmerizing, Paula D. Ashe's debut short fiction collection reads like the sloppy love-child of Clive Barker and David Cronenberg--Barker for sheer gruesomely sensual intoxication, the language of blood-soaked angels, Cronenberg for bodies flipped inside-out and messed around back-to-front like suppurating biological Rubik's Cubes. I want to study it; I wish I'd