The Forest Has No Immediate Plans to Kill You
Artwork by Dan Rempel Rex Burrows, "The Forest Has No Immediate Plans to Kill You" in Weird Horror , Issue 3, Fall 2021, Undertow Publications. Read the story here on Weird Horror's website Both fun and horrifying, the story works well on different levels. I particularly like the questions that it raises once it sits with you for a while. That we actually fear something else becoming like us—doing things that we would do—that is a horrifying commentary on consciousness and self-awareness. And then it gets worse; the forest pulls another trick from our own book: it rationalizes its actions to its victims.