Eric LaRocca

it seems like I am somewhat hesitant, it’s merely because it feels like I’m holding a funeral for my former self – the person I was before I lived with integrity and honesty

After all, what exactly is a family, if not a brotherhood and sisterhood afflicted with the same terminal disease?

“what have you done today to deserve your eyes?”

At the end of each day, he used to ask me, “what have you done today to deserve your eyes?”

I learned quickly that blood is not always thicker than water.

what have you done today to deserve your eyes?

I feel like a new constellation, scabbed in glittering black

“What for?” she had asked, her hands hiding the smile beginning to thaw across her face.

“Something he ate,” the Carpino boy told her. “He bit into an apple with a sewing needle stuck inside.”

When you’re gay, you have the privilege of choosing your family.

Things have gotten worse since we last spoke.