ROOT ROT BY SASKIA NISLOW

Come meet The Liar, The Secret Keeper, The Crybaby, and the rest.

Nine children travel with their families to their Grandfathers vacation property, where strange things begin to happen: eyes blink from the bottom up, mushrooms ooze blood, people’s faces dont hang right anymoreexcept they do, once you look more closely. Transformations warp the childrens sense of time and place, the very land itself seeming to encroach upon them.

As The Liar watches the children succumb one by one to an unknown fate, she must make sense of absent stars in the night sky, vials of amber liquid that taste of milk, a funny little rope tied in knots. Shes faced with a choice: join or resist, only the choice is not so simple.

Set in The Grandfathers Lake House as he continues to extend his property lines and told in the eerieweof the children,Root Rotexplores predatory family dynamics, the boundaries of bodies and home, and how individuals choose to participate in or push back against structures that would harm them.

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