Tie The Ivy Through My Ribcage (And Leave Me With Emptied Lungs)

One unsuspecting Friday evening, deep in a city festering with darkness and sin, we meet a cast of twisted individuals tangled up in a wicked thicket of lies, greed, fame, and addiction. One by one they fall to their vices, succumbing to the most carnal, most primal of their instincts. All the while, a mysterious man with a rose tattoo lingers in the shadows, weaving together their stories with vines and thorns like a sadistic seamster while the city falls around them.

Tie The Ivy Through My Ribcage (And Leave Me With Emptied Lungs) is an M-rated novella-in-short-story collection that showcases the darker side of the human psyche. Focusing on how far one will go to achieve what they believe will make them happy—no matter what it may cost—while reveling in the depravity in a manner that will make your skin crawl, this deliciously devious series of stories will leave you unsettled in the best way. Each story focuses on a different soul and the actions, events, and downfalls that follow them, with connections that creep through the marrow like crawling roots, creating a sprawling, haunting portrait of corruption and chaos.

Featuring four standalone short stories ("The Tea House On Main", "Sin in the Garden of Eden", "Belladonna, Ballerina, Bullet Hole", and "A Puppet Made of Posies"), the novelette "The Tale Of The Cypress Southpaw", and a final epilogue - "Deep In The Thicket" - that ties it all together.

• Cover art by Infested Publishing
  
• Interior art by Airic Fenn
  
• Editorial/Proofread by Wells Thompson, Lou Willingham, Airic Fenn, Z.M. Celestaire, and Luke W. Henderson
• CWs: This book is only recommended for mature audiences - it is an eco-body horrorotica collection that deals with: themes of greed and corruption, explicit and lengthy scenes of a sexual nature (including BDSM, dubious consent, coercive sexual acts, breath play, etc.), implied necrophilia, literal cannibalism, drug and alcohol consumption, kidnapping and trafficking, botanical-based body horror, brief mentions of homophobia/the harassment of two LGBTQ+ characters (revenge does get served), brief non-explicit racism toward one character, gun-related violence, cults/cult trauma, sex clubs, so many serial killers, queer and feminine rage, unsavory mortuary practices, corrupt cops and politicians being horrible, dismemberment (of living and dead bodies), and all around nasty, grungy things.