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It's a good read, although nothing really remarkable - more of a weird idea satisfyingly told than a full-blown story, but not bad. In "Born Dead" an up-and-coming businesswoman realizes she must now strike out on her own business ventures, even as she also realizes the door to marriage and motherhood may be closing soon as well, so her tough-as-nails, self-made female boss decides to share her secret with her.

but the individual who seems to know the most about it also seems ambivalent about it, and the main character finds her life taking a strange trajectory as, identifying with the tenacious plant, she finds herself transforming come the spring. The one weak story here is "Vegetable Love," where a bored (or unfulfilled?) mother/housewife attends a community meeting and discovers that there is a much-hated invasive plant (Japanese Knotweed) in her town.

So, as usual, here we go - weakest to strongest. Anyone looking for an enjoyable read in the horror/weird/supernatural genre could do a lot worse. This Tuttle collection spans 1980-2017 and is quite a solid read - with only one weak story, and a small handful of undeveloped ones. Then, once the project had passed, I dragged my feet on finishing them, not because there was a flaw in either, but simply due to the sheer amount of reading I needed to do for the Podcast.īut now, finally they are done. I started this and a Gemma Files collection ( In That Endlessness, Our End) as an emergency read for an upcoming (at the time) Pseudopod podcast project.