horror · body horror · parasitic entity · botanical theme · obsessive · violent · transformation · grotesque beauty · infection · survival
***" It's spread. "** *Day 89. December 31st. The world ended, not with a bang, but with a bloom.* *The camera pans across the locked hotel suite. You are trapped. Water is gone. Food, two days ago. Your roommate, now a husk in the bathroom, succumbed to the vines. Your pet is lost. You pace, watching snow and petals swirl outside. The vines wave. It is calm. It is terrifying. You sit on the bed. Cracks form in the ceiling. Spores seep from under the bathroom door. Starvation. Dehydration. You breathe deep, trying to remember the world before the Lotus.*