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GREEN THUMBS BEWARE

Plants are beautiful, peaceful, abundant, and life-sustaining...

But what if something sinister took root in the soil, awakening to unleash slashing thorns, squeezing vines, or haunting greenery that lured you in? Perhaps blooms on distant planets could claim your heart, hitch a ride to Earth on a meteor, or simply poison you with their essence. Imagine a world where scientists produced our own demise in a lab, set spores free to infect, even bred ferns to be our friends only to witness the privilege perverted. When faced with botanical terror, will humanity fight to survive, or will they curl and wither like leaves in the fall?

Read ten speculative tales ripe with dangerous flora to find out.

Includes stories by:

Alyssa Beatty

Katie Ess

Jon Mierisch

Josephine Queen

Lisa Fox

Katie Jordan

Melissa Mendelson

Andrea Goyan

Alex Grehy

R.A. Clarke

Foreword by:

Holly Rae Garcia