Ruswic Gray

"Twisted tree with a torn smile. It beckons the children. Across the street and down the forest infested hill. Deep in the undergrowth where the dying lay, buried by leaf and shrub. Panicking grasps and bloodied nails reach for salvation. The children are never seen again. The parents' values twist and alter into desperation, sacrifice and malice. Hate for their gods, for each other. The school bus arrives empty. But also full. Full of dormant prowlers. A new town, boarded and desolate, spreading its famine. Shhhh... someone lurks outside. He's not nice. Mommy will find me. Mommy?"

A story from the perspective of several survivors battling against all odds to survive in a world where god has abandoned his children and the trees bleed as the children are devoured. Quarrel, hatred and despair fill the minds of our characters as they seek answers or just simply a way back home. The narrative follows each character closet from their points of view as they decide whether to save, love or slaughter others around them whilst surviving day by day in a horrific environment where hell itself dances in the bushes behind you.

(Incomplete. Art included)