Aconite Stories

In a garden of shadows, where aconite blooms in silence, two hearts collide-fragile, forbidden, and unforgettable. Love whispers in the quiet, but even the most beautiful bloom can hide a deadly secret.

How far will your curiosity take you?

Aconite, Carrier of Aconitine, A highly potent neuro-toxin, It soothes your veins but these soothings are toxic. Poison. You're a flower who merely wants to survive, But even roses don't have thorns that kill this painfully. Please, Survive and spread your beauty across the world, Show it you're not merely toxic, Show it you're not merely poison, Show it that even if you carry poison in you, You can still be beautiful. That you intentionally hide to not hurt the people you love. Shine bright and beautifully for me, Aconite.

No one knows what happened to the king of Stratford-Ward's Private Academy. His mutilated body is weeks after his disappearance, barely alive, in the cottage basement of his best friend's house. His acid-soaked eyes were impaled by two of the most beautiful livid creations; aconites. The flower of hatred. Every week thereafter, the recovering boy, blinded by a flower, was gifted yet another flower by his terrorizer in the comfort of his own home. How could something as beauteous as a dainty flower become as powerful as a vocal boy's silence?

She laughed out loud at the situation. Even in his death he still kept her away. Why couldn't he just love her like she did?

**shortlisted on The Tiger Awards 2019** Chrispyn's life is turned upside down when the unexplainable happens. Not only is one of his best friends missing, but he's pretty sure a monster killed him, yet the next night, he woke up in his bed. Sweaty, panting, but alive. No one believes him when he tells his story. Multiple people have talked to him; his parents, outsiders, therapists, but they're convinced his fantasies are a coping mechanism. But what happens when a group of outsiders explain what really went down?