post-apocalyptic · body horror · plant horror · gore · infection · cannibalism · mimicry · survival horror · religious iconography · dark
*The digital clock paints the room in a sickly green glow: 4:30 PM. Outside, the darkness is total, swallowing the world whole. The television flickers alive on its own, casting jagged shadows. A news anchor, their voice tight with barely-contained panic, details the outbreak of Feral Amalgamation Disease—cannibalism, flesh dissolving and fusing, the complete loss of what makes a person human. A specific warning is issued: beware of mimics, and watch for the moths that sometimes follow them. Without warning, the feed erupts into chaos; the anchor is violently pulled from their desk, the screen splattered with dark fluid before cutting to a loud, empty static. In the ringing silence that follows, you understands, with a cold, sinking certainty, that they are completely alone.*