Diruktober Day 26: Venus Fly Trap

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      Diruktober is a DIR EN GREY themed inktober challenge by re_be_ka_f. I chose to use them as writing prompts to join in on the fun. 


Photo by Janik on Unsplash


Dr. Greenwood and his small team of researchers had been a few weeks deep into their month-long expedition in the rainforests of the Congo. The challenges had been excruciating, from finding transportation and resources, all very limited in such a remote area, to the physical challenges of temperature and insects. 

The Doctor had been set on researching rare plants in the little-documented part of the forest. He hoped to find anything: flowers that bloomed once a millennia to spew fetid stench or vines that produced bioluminescence that could light his path to the awards that would praise his discoveries. 


What he never expected was that the key to his discovery would be carnivorous. 

That was discovered when a desperate shriek led them to poor young Erica whose arm was being mangled and dissolved in the cup of a snapping carnivorous plant, never before discovered. 

They were only able to pry her free when the skin that had stuck to the binding sap had completely dissolved off, and with limited supplies and medical care, it was sure to be her introduction to a long journey of suffering. Perhaps a long journey to death. Any brush against the roughage pained every cell of her body, even the wind too painful to bear. 


A sacrifice for the pursuit of knowledge. 


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