Forty years of building a creative universe solo -- the writing, the films, the characters.
And now we can talk to them. Quite a journey.
Longer, really. I wrote my first complete short story in a single sitting after...
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He tends the tree. The tree tends to others.
Jaonny's 18, lives alone. He can't leave home.
His alien "apple tree" his parents planted the day he was born is still thriving. Still fruiting. Still beautiful. Still terrifying.
His parents disappeared when he was young. He doesn't talk about how.
From "Jaonny's Apple Tree" — dark speculative fiction by JZ Murdock.
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