Ep 390: Cerbo un Vitra ujo : Escape Pod

If you are curious about what happens when I write horror, this is one of the stories. This is, in fact, the story that I won’t let my parent read.

It’s on Escape Pod, if you want to listen, read by Veronica Giguere. They also have it in text form.

Here’s a teaser:

Grete snipped a diseased branch off her Sunset-Glory rosebush like she was a body harvester looking for the perfect part. Behind the drone of the garden’s humidifiers, she caught a woosh-snick as the airlock door opened. Her boyfriend barreled around Mom’s prize Emperor artichoke.

Something was wrong.

The whites showed around Kaj’s remarkable eyes, a blue-green so iridescent they seemed to dull all the plants around them. “Mom and Dad got me a Pass to a down-planet school!”