And So the Garden Grows

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Short Story / Psychological Horror / Science Fiction

What if the problem wasn’t that humans wouldn’t cooperate? What if the problem was that we thought cooperation required individual choice?

In the quiet dawn of a suburban garden, a mycologist observes the intricate abundance of life surrounding them. To the untrained eye, it’s a scene of pastoral beauty. To the scientist, it is a blueprint for a revolution. As a clandestine collective of five elite minds manipulates the very threads of existence, the boundaries between human and natural systems dissolve. What begins as meticulous observation becomes a radical act of transformation: a planetary solution with consequences that no one fully anticipates.

Lush, meditative, and visceral, And So the Garden Grows explores the fragile balance of life, the cost of intervention, and the quiet, unstoppable intelligence of the natural world. Readers will leave questioning the limits of agency, the ethics of survival, and the meaning of being part of something larger than themselves.

For readers of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and the philosophical dread of Octavia Butler, this story will take root in your mind and flourish long after the final, devastating page.

The Waste

Short Story / Psychological Horror / Science Fiction

Kylie Starr’s viral pop hit owned 2007. Years later, it still owns her. Now she’s a walking meme in low-rise jeans. She keeps her head down, avoids eye contact, and orders coffee like she’s apologizing for existing. Anonymity is the only thing she says she wants anymore. The world refuses to let her have it. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger feels like mercy at first. A chance to be just Kylie again.

She should have known better. The audience never lets go. It never forgets. And it never stops watching.

The Waste is a slow, suffocating psychological horror dissects the machinery of fame, fandom, nostalgia, and consumption.. It follows Kylie as she discovers that being remembered forever is not immortality, but the most precise and patient form of damnation.

This is not a story about survival or redemption. It contains themes of coercion, loss of agency, obsession, psychological harm, and the commodification of suffering. It offers no comfort, no catharsis, and no easy answers. It refuses mercy.

Written in sharp, unflinching prose, The Waste blends body horror, dystopian science fiction, and slow-burn dread into a parable about what happens when the past is preserved at any cost.

Perfect for readers drawn to the quiet terror of Black Mirror, the cultural unease of Carmen Maria Machado, the surreal dread of Kelly Link, and the unflinching gaze of Samantha Schweblin.