Dead Pulsating Tree

INTRO TO D-P-T

A multi-dimensional wanderer, an obsessive knight, and a brainwashing time loop are only a few of the ideas that came to me during my English classes. 

Each story you see here was something I thought up for an assignment. Each was created because I was an outsider in my classroom in different ways. Horror became a way to explore why I felt strange. Each idea, each page filled, is my sense of self. My self is shattered into mirror pieces, with all the cracks forming root-like appendages that ground me to the earth. When looking at this mess, you see a tree if you tilt your head the right way. It's still breathing after everything it has been through. 

With all that poetic explanation out of the way,  these mean a lot to me, and I'm happy to share them with others in the hope that they see themselves reflected.

CONTENT WARNINGS

General —This is an adult horror story collection. If this isn't your cup of tea, try a different warm drink of your choice.

Drifter - Light Body Horror

Subject: Party @ Main Bay - Heavy Gore, Body Horror, Cannibalism,  Emetophobia

Loving a Heavenly Body - Body Horror, Mentions of Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual References

A Maiden and the Leviathan - Misogyny, Anti-Black Racism, Gore, Allusions to Stalking

Sink Our Ship, Sign Off - Heavy Sexual References, Mentions of Self-Harm and Suicide, Gore...Technically (?)

Helix Malfunction - Violence, Brainwashing,  Heavy Religious Themes, Fascist Governments, and Mentions of Grooming

If you'd like to tip me, here's my Kofi. Thank you! 

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