“Does the seed know it must die?” One of Rosemary’s final requests of her husband was to create the garden of her dreams. A place where she could live the remainder of her days in peace. A place that will remind her of her best moments and memories long past. Thomas toils day and night to complete it, but in a moment of carelessness in the cabbage patch, he unknowingly rips the veil between the natural and unnatural. What was meant to be a gift rapidly blossoms into an overwhelming curse—one that unleashes a cornucopia of dread, tension, and fraught. In this short story, C.S. Fritz carries the reader into the dark powers of unresolved resentment, lore, and where hope becomes horror.
Publication Year: 2023
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oh boy does this suffer from length. I was intrigued by the idea but unfortunately this just did not hit. It's very fast paced and a lot of the background information is given in broken up quick tidbits. I definitely caught that the author was trying to explore themes of grief and suppressed anger but it wasn't really executed well. I couldn't get behind the rash choices that Rosemary was making because I had no background to go off for why, just snippets of something that caused her to harbor years worth of anger and hatred towards her husband. I understand people make stupid decisions on a regular basis in real life but the start of this was just ridiculous, because why would you just willing eat something that you have no idea how it came to be?
Honestly the idea for this was really interesting and I think had it be written to be longer and explored to the full extent it would have been more interesting and the weird/creepy/horror vibes could have been more present. The outcome was sure weird, but not make me scared or worried weird, like I wasn't feeling any way at all while reading this and that's something I look for horror, maybe I don't understand the genre much but I want to feel something when I read it.
The playlist is pretty much the only thing I liked about this, but I honestly missed it the first time I opened the file up, but its a great creepy vibes playlist and I can appreciate that.