The Tree in the House | A Thorn Wound Becomes Botanical Body Horror

A weed drives its thorn through a gardener’s boot in Tim Castle’s “The Tree in the House.” Pulling it free should end an unpleasant afternoon. Instead, the wound becomes the start of something moving beneath his skin. He digs for roots, doubts what he remembers and watches an ordinary injury become impossible to explain. This botanical body-horror story turns a familiar flower bed into the source of an invasive transformation, with the victim awake to every new sensation. How do you escape a growing thing when your own body is where it has taken root?

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