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Kasu (small wounds)'s avatar

Love what you did with the prompt!

Every Root, Every Thorn's avatar

That dad saying that to hus child just after nearly killing himself is peak level horror writing. Bravo 👏

Gary L Taylor's avatar

Really nice interpretation of the prompt.

Yorviing's avatar

Very nice! It’s cool seeing how everyone interpreted this prompt 😄

Antonio Castellaneta's avatar

What interests me most is the way the body horror here does not emerge from the body itself, but from the language the body has been forced to hold inside. The creature feels less like a “monster” than a physical form of shame, guilt, and inherited violence.

Gregory Blair's avatar

Very Cronenberg! I love the karmic idea of the evil you inject into another person coming home to you to roost.