Explore the World of Morbid Tales

From the morbid mind of Amazon bestselling author Kayla Joy comes eleven brand new Morbid Tales all about the sweetest things in life-a warm home at dusk, a familiar movie musical, the laughter of a child, or the beauty of a bride-and the exploitative systems required to create an endless supply of sweetness. Call it honey or gold, we worship it, create it, consume it, and in the pursuit, we have become a singular unit. A hive mind. Divided into queen bees, worker bees, drones. We feed, and work, and buzz in harmonies to keep ourselves warm, serving a common purpose. We swarm our predators and sting things we fear. We sustain ourselves only as well as our community sustains itself. We live in a honeycomb we built ourselves, and we're bound to serve it.

These eleven stories are about what happens when one attempts to infiltrate, change, or escape the hive mind. About daughters who inherit haunted houses, and mothers driven mad by grief. Prisoners punished democratically on live television, and feral children raised in captivity. Robots and replacements, anarchy and antici...pation. Wander through the scorching desert, the trenches of war, a kindergarten classroom, a senior living home, the depths of the internet, and the highest of the heavens. A sickeningly sweet reminder to readers: the sweetest systems attract the most flies.

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