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Written By: Katie Rose Rogers

Narrated By: Katie McGrath

To some people, Louise is too much. She feels too much. She thinks too much. She loves too much. And when her heart is broken, she will do way too much to get back the man who left her. 

Collection Three: “Monster Mash”: Stories about Creatures, Chaos & the Supernatural

Episode #: Five

Release Date: Tuesday, November 26th

Est. Runtime: » 20 Min

Standout Lines:

“When I say the universe brought him to me, I’m saying if I can’t have him in this life, I will find him in the next. Even if I’m a slug and he’s a butterfly. If I’m a cat and he’s a crocodile. I would let him eat me, just to live in his belly.”

“When I say, I’ve moved on, imagine me like the fattened koi fish at our pond. Mouth gaped open, fighting desperately with the birds for crumbs of day-old bread.”

“When I say I am tired, believe that I exist in three separate times at once. At our beginning. At our middle. And at our end. My love for you is jetlagged without destination, without luggage, confused.”

From the Author:

Well, gosh. This is a story that is dear to me because I wrote it for someone who is dear to me. Without divulging too much, I can tell you I have this brilliant friend. She is talented, gorgeous, cool. She really is one of the best writers I know. But she has one great flaw. She has horrific, dire, truly maddening taste in men. And because she lives so far away (she lives far away) I often hear about these men when she's already in too deep. In a slew of stunningly written text messages that come in at 4 am. And because it's already too late, there's no advice I can give, and so, this time, I tried something new. I wrote her a story about a brilliant woman who falls in love with the wrong man and loses herself in her pursuit of him. And because we are past metaphors, I wanted to make it all extremely literal. But also... beautiful. Because, though, I would love for her to snap out of it and fall for someone who gives her everything she needs from the beginning...I've also definitely been Louise. Numerous times. I remember the intricate and heightened feeling of wanting something I shouldn't. Of temporarily getting it. Then losing it. The chase and rush of it all is so impossible gorgeous and delicious and human!

My protagonist isn't a mad woman, she isn't insane. If anything... She is extremely sane. She just feels! She feels so much! She is strikingly human... until she's not anymore. 

— Katie