Rotten Fruit

By Francisco Ungaro Neto

What happens when feeling too much becomes a flaw?
In a future where humans and symbiotic entities share emotions like living networks, L cia is chosen for a fusion ritual with the ancient being Ehr-Zuonn.
But what was meant to be the peak of communion becomes an irreversible fracture.

Rotten Fruit is a visceral and lyrical plunge into the collapse of symbiosis.
A symbolic and emotional horror that spreads like a disease - silent, beautiful, and impossible to contain.

The story blends existential sci-fi, psychological horror, and philosophical speculative fiction, in a reality where body and language fuse into one decaying organism of grief and memory.

For readers of Jeff VanderMeer, Ursula K. Le Guin, and those who crave stories that blur the boundaries between identity, connection, and cosmic language.

Here, tears don't cleanse - they corrode.
Love, empathy, and unity are twisted into a profound undoing.

Language: English (translated from Brazilian Portuguese)
This is an independent, experimental sci-fi novella - part poem, part nightmare, all feeling.

You won't understand it.
You'll feel it.
And then... you'll carry it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FLHFZ4Q1
• ISBN13: 9798231752102
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Francisco Ungaro Neto
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"