Black River Orchard
by Chuck Wendig · first published 2023
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It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something besides the season is changing there. Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard, seven most unusual trees. And from those trees grows a new sort of apple: strange, beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black. Take a bite of one of these apples, and you will desire only to devour another. And another. You will become stronger. More vital. More yourself, you will believe. But then your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing—and become darker. This is what happens when the townsfolk discove
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…2023 than what I normally read in a year. So there isn't a big trove to draw from. That said: NON-FICTION: The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins Make Your Own Neural Network - Tariq Rashid FICTION: Black River Orchard - Chuck Wendig. Just an exceptionally well written horror story. Not necessarily super scary per-se, but well written and enjoyable to read. And I thought Wendig really "stuck the landing" with the ending.…
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