If Nothing Else, Eve, We've Enjoyed the Fruit

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“Pascale writes in the realm with the giants. She is one step past fantastic that is hard to define, and a

little frightening, and yet we yearn to travel there as often as possible.”

- Adam Armstrong

“Mashpee resident Elaine Pascale has published a book of six short stories that are as dark and foreboding as the work of Shirley Jackson, Stephen King or even Edgar Allan Poe.”

- Melanie Lauwers, Cape Cod Times

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If Nothing Else, Eve, We’ve

Enjoyed the Fruit

by Elaine Pascale

cover by B.A. Bosaiya

What happens when a kept woman refuses to take her ridatemp and begins thinking for herself? In "If Nothing Else, Eve, We've Enjoyed the Fruit," she begins talking to bunches of grapes and cantaloupe that convince her to commit murder. Through her visitations with fruit, the woman learns that a gender war can be reversed by traveling back in time and eradicating the Tree of Knowledge and its villainous apples. The fruit persuade her by telling her four other stories:

Boys Will be Boys: A spa is turned into a concentration camp: just don't ride the elevators!

Ripped to Shreds: Pregnant Jody Burkhoff's body is changing rapidly, but not as quickly as the lupine metamorphosis of her husband. First the neighborhood animals are mutilated, then the neighbors are viciously murdered. Which proves to be more dangerous, a monstrous creature or a hormonal woman?

O: Khaki Barlow enters a pageant in which only one woman survives. She must complete tasks that are both mentally and physically daunting, all while trying to learn the meaning of the words left by the eliminated: "I am here." Does she face incredible fears? Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?

The Prison of a Man: Told as an ethnographical project, Lara Thomas researches the deaths of shoppers at a mall embedded in a small town, and encounters the legendary Goat Man.

If Nothing Else (Prologue): Readers learn the final decision in the gender war.

Elaine Pascale has been writing for most of her life. She took a break from fiction in order to give birth to two children and complete a doctoral dissertation. She lives on Cape Cod, MA, with her husband, son and daughter. She teaches a variety of courses at a private university in Boston: from English Composition and Communications to a Vampire Seminar. Her writing has been published in Allegory Magazine, Dark Fire Magazine, and several anthologies. She is also the author of the nonfiction book: Metamorphosis: Identity Outcomes in International Student Adaptation--A Grounded Theory Study. She enjoys a robust full moon, chocolate, and collecting cats.