MOONFLOW

They call it the King's Breakfast. They say one bite and you can understand the full scope of the universe.

They say one bite and you can commune with forgotten gods beyond human ken, gods best left undisturbed. And it only grows deep in the Pamogo forest, a vast uncharted expanse of tangled ferns and towering pines, where the trees crowd so tight that the forest floor is pitch black day and night. Sarah makes her living growing mushrooms. But when a bad harvest leaves her in a desperate fix, the lure of the King's Breakfast will see her make that journey deep into those unmapped woods. Her only guide is Andy, the most annoying man in the world, but he's convinced there's no danger. But as they descend into the forest, they find that some malignant intelligence seems to twist the paths through the wilderness to confuse them, leading them deeper into a psychedelic dreamscape as they dissociate from reality. Deep in the woods stands a derelict timber mill, home to a secret anarcho-feminist lesbian cult that uses the King's Breakfast to commune with an ancient goddess of the divine feminine. Hippie prophet Mother Moonflow leads the Sisters in drug-fuelled sex rituals in hopes of creating a new society in the image of the Green Lady, a world for true women, and she'll do anything to achieve it even if her goddess requires the occasional blood sacrifice. When Sarah and Andy arrive and challenge Mother Moonflow's careful control over the Sisters, all soon find that ancient gods care little for human feelings and less for human control. Bitter Karella (he/she/they) is the writer and horror aficionado behind the twice Hugo-nominated microfiction comedy account @Midnight_pals, which asks what if all your favorite horror writers gathered around the campfire to tell scary stories. His work has appeared in Seize the Press, Tenebrous Press's Your Body in Not Your Body, and Ghoulish Books' Bound in Flesh. She also dabbles in cartooning and text game design.