REVIEWED: BLEED WITH ME BY MAURICE BROADDUS
BLEED WITH ME by Maurice Broaddus (2011 Delirium Books / 64 pages / Signed Limited Edition Hardcover and eBook)
After an apparent suicide attempt, successful suburbanite Lorelei Davina’s husband Stefan manages to get her to the hospital before she bleeds to death. Their marriage has lost its love, but the two continue on as Lorelei tries to understand why she can’t remember cutting her arms open.
Mario is a wanna-be dancer, now living a life of inner-city prostitution under a brutal pimp named The Pall. Mario and Lorelei meet and learn their lives are criss-crossed in a way neither could have ever imagined.
Broaddus’ brief novella has a genuine sense of dread and a couple of protagonists you’ll truly care for, although it’s never quite explained just WHY they’re linked in such an unusual way. This question aside, BLEED FOR ME is a quick read with flashes of extreme violence mingled between some deep thoughts.
- Nick Cato