species: A chilling surreal horror novel where petals replace skin, blood becomes pollen, and the line between life and nightmare dissolves into a new species born from forgotten humanity.
When flowers bloom from human skin, it isn't a miracle. It's the end of us and the beginning of something else.
It starts with an eleven-year-old boy in Ohio whose "rash" opens into a living flower. Within weeks, hospitals overflow with patients sprouting vines, petals, and impossible blossoms. Some suffocate under the growth. Others... change.
ER nurse Mara Patel is on the front line in Cincinnati as the Bloom devours the country. Her job is to triage the dying until she's asked to oversee a new kind of unit: a "garden ward" for those who no longer respond to medicine but aren't quite dead. Their bodies are blooming. Their minds are slipping somewhere the living can't follow.
Hundreds of miles away, CDC scientist Dr. Nadia Hollowell races to understand the phenomenon. The Bloom doesn't behave like any pathogen. It acts like an awakening, rewriting human DNA from the inside out. And when petals begin to open on Nadia's own arm, she becomes both observer and subject of a terrifying evolution.
As cities are swallowed by sentient greenery and flower-faced figures begin to walk out of hospitals and into the wild, humanity must face a brutal truth: this isn't an infection to cure. It's a successor choosing to rise.
In a world where:
Hospitals become greenhouses.Faith turns into fanatic "cleansing" rituals.The living are slowly repurposed as soil.Mara and Nadia must decide what it means to care, to witness, and to let go when the human body is no longer the final form.
Species is a haunting, visionary tale of body horror and beautiful apocalypse, about blooming flesh, sentient plants, and the quiet, unavoidable overthrow of an old species by a new, devastatingly graceful ruler.
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