The Weeping Root Rot Plague
1 part Ongoing MatureIn the quiet town of Cranwood, nestled in the Appalachian foothills, a soil-born germ promised hope-designed to feed the world, controlled by science. But beneath its perfect surface, black veins snaked and a subtle hum pulsed, alive in ways no one could foresee.
Ophelia Oakwood, a shy first-year physiology student, returns home for the summer expecting comfort: the scent of pine and wet earth, the crooked cobblestones, the family garden she once loved. But something is wrong. Her mother is mysteriously ill, her father haunted, and the soil beneath their feet seems to whisper danger.
Science has taught her to trust evidence-but now survival will demand instinct, knowledge, and courage. The town's quiet is fading, replaced by a creeping menace that twists life itself. One girl may be the only thing standing between the living-and the nightmare growing beneath Cranwood.
Slow-burn eco-horror. Body horror. A miracle soil. A town on the edge.
"From my rotting body,
flowers shall grow
and I am in them.
That is eternity."