Sneak peek from The Orchard Witches 🌿🖤
Chapter Ten is where things start to… shift.
“The orchard seems to hold its breath.”
Would you stay in the circle—or step back before it begins?
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A towering humanoid creature stands amid drifting snow, its presence dominating the muted winter background. Its skin is pale, cracked, and textured like frozen earth, stretched tightly across an elongated skull. Two massive, ridged horns curve outward from its head, each dusted with frost and adorned with dangling trinkets—tiny skulls, fragments of bone, and dark beads that sway gently. Its hair is long, stringy, and matted with ice, hanging in tangled strands that frame a face both skeletal and feral. The creature’s eyes glow with an unnerving, saturated red light, fixed intently on the viewer with a predatory stillness. Its clothing resembles tattered winter garb—a heavy, weather-beaten red coat trimmed in thick, frost-stiffened fur. The fabric is frayed, patched, and embellished with assorted charms and chains. Along its forearms, layers of leather straps, metal rings, and crude bindings wrap tightly around weathered skin. In one outstretched hand, it presents a small, worn gift box tied with a frayed red ribbon. The box is covered in faded symbols and aged paper, its edges softened and stained by time and travel. Snow collects lightly on the package as well as across the creature's shoulders and horns, creating a contrast between the delicate snowfall and the oppressive figure holding it. The scene feels suspended in cold silence, as if awaiting the moment the box is accepted—or refused. Keywords winter horror, horned creature, eerie gift, snowfall, ancient folklore, crimson eyes, tattered garments, atmospheric dread, frozen textures, unsettling presence, dark holiday, mythic terror Attribution Clearly identified as AI-generated; use is permitted for non-commercial creative projects. MidJourney, FLUX.1-schnell model via Perchance, Artspace.ai, REVE, Echoform™.
Winter Herald of the Unwelcome Gift
A creature carved from frost and dread offers a gift no one should open.
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Pigments of Madness. A horror short story collection I have been working on. 5 stories exploring a corrupted form of the alchemical Magnum Opus. #pigmentsofmadness #alchemy #shortstories #horror #occult #esoterism #psychologicalhorror #bodyhorror #folklorichorror #gothichorror #amazonstoryteller2025
