If publishing weird, unsettling, horrific pieces of ecofiction is wrong, then I don’t want to be right
Ben Lockwood (broadly defined)
"'Down here, you.'
Feminine voice. Seductive rasp. The manchild kneels over the hole, carefully avoiding the blackened earth. An insect skitters the hole’s rim—beetle body, but a drooping antenna carries a bulb reminding him of angler fish."
- @linardos.bsky.social in "She Burrows and Invites"
Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not u...