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therooftops"The Wilderness" by Tsukizubon Saruko
Content notes: body horror, minor character death, vomit imagery, internalized homophobia
Jon parked with creeping, painstaking caution near one edge of the lot (the mushrooms along the fence had run riot, along with more vines climbing it and weeds tangling in its links), both of them in tense white-lipped silence as the tires bounced and thudded over the uneven ground. They should never have come, but they couldn’t turn back now; to turn back would mean somehow, in some way however small, actually acknowledging what they were seeing, and there was no way either of them could handle that.
This is a spectacular story about relationship neglect. A couple on the rocks goes on vacation to reconnect, and things get weird in ways that reflect their communication issues. The imagery is vivid, disturbing, and effective. I've had my fair share of these relationship problems where the real problem is that no one's talking about the problem, and this story describes and engages with that incredibly well.
Content notes: body horror, minor character death, vomit imagery, internalized homophobia
Jon parked with creeping, painstaking caution near one edge of the lot (the mushrooms along the fence had run riot, along with more vines climbing it and weeds tangling in its links), both of them in tense white-lipped silence as the tires bounced and thudded over the uneven ground. They should never have come, but they couldn’t turn back now; to turn back would mean somehow, in some way however small, actually acknowledging what they were seeing, and there was no way either of them could handle that.
This is a spectacular story about relationship neglect. A couple on the rocks goes on vacation to reconnect, and things get weird in ways that reflect their communication issues. The imagery is vivid, disturbing, and effective. I've had my fair share of these relationship problems where the real problem is that no one's talking about the problem, and this story describes and engages with that incredibly well.