This Morbid Life: Essays

Review\n"I am so honored that I got the opportunity to read this book a little early. I laughed and I cried. I was blown away by the vulnerability and just how Loren laid everything out with no holding back. I, UGH!, I loved this so much. What a fantastic life and what a beautiful love letter to her friends. I'm absolutely astonished. Thank you again, so much for this piece. Everyone needs to read this ASAP." -- The Bookeyman\n"Rhoads's This Morbid Life offers a compelling premise for readers. Her work is highly unusual and bold in its intentions and readers will strongly connect with the many poignant and memorable moments." -- The BookLife Prize\n"MUST READ! A collection of essays told in perfectly proportioned chapters that show the — if not always morbid — raw, startlingly real, and uncomfortable side of life." -- Reedsy\n"This Morbid Life is wholly unique, but I if I were to give this book an elevator pitch, it would go something like this: "Chuck Palahniuk's Stranger Than Fiction meets HBO's Six Feet Under." This single-author collection of death-positive essays delves deep into everything from what it's like to lose a dear friend to a devastating, misunderstood disease to eating bugs and dancing at a Pagan party. While some of Rhoads' essays are dark and intimate, others are lighthearted and laugh-out-loud funny—oh, and yes, there are ghosts." -- WomenInHorror.com\nWhat others have called an obsession with death is really a desperate romance with life. Guided by curiosity, compassion, and a truly strange sense of humor, this particular morbid life is detailed through a death-positive collection of 45 confessional essays. Along the way, author Loren Rhoads takes prom pictures in a cemetery, spends a couple of days in a cadaver lab, eats bugs, survives the AIDS epidemic, chases ghosts, and publishes a little magazine called Morbid Curiosity.
Originally written for zines from Cyber-Psychos AOD to Zine World and online magazines from Gothic.Net to Scoutie Girl, these emotionally charged essays showcase the morbid curiosity and dark humor that transformed Rhoads into a leading voice of the curious and creepy.