Butchered Hope: Novella
The people of Blanworth were starving long before the butcher arrived.
Not for food.
For comfort. For meaning. For the feeling that life might still hold something warm.
When Callum Mathers opens his family butcher's shop on the dying high street, the village begins to change. Lonely widowers dream of dead wives. Families heal over candlelit dinners. Teenagers find impossible friendships. Grief softens. Anger fades. Hunger becomes something deeper.
The meat is extraordinary.
Too extraordinary.
As queues stretch down the pavement and the village falls quietly under the spell of Mathers & Son, a handful of people begin to notice the things that don't quite fit, the butcher who seems to know far too much, the daughter who appears where she's needed most, the priest who cannot shake the feeling he has seen this family before, somewhere far darker.
Because the Mathers family have done this before.
And by the time Blanworth discovers what's really being served behind the glowing windows of the butcher's shop, it may already be too late to stop eating.
A slow-burning folk horror about grief, longing, community, and the terrifying cost of being truly understood.
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