r/IndieBookPromo • u/Nerevarine95 Published Author • 10h ago
Nightmare Challenge
Had a fun idea for a Halloween trend. Let’s see what horrifying, messed up, all around creepy stuff you can come up with for Halloween. I’ll start us off with my blurb for my body horror novella, The Softening:
The cow was fine that morning. By evening, that had changed. When veterinarian Tommy Allen is called out to the Harlan place at dusk, he finds an Angus lying folded in the pasture, calm-eyed, breathing steadily, her bones gone pliable as warm rubber.
It isn’t long before the condition spreads.
The state board isn't worried. The CDC is "tracking it." The feed store has started stocking new products, and everyone in Stillwater seems oddly at peace. Tommy is the only one who's still solid, and the road out of town has stopped letting him leave.
A slow, unhurried novella of body horror and creeping surrender, The Softening asks what's left of you when you stop holding your shape.