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A Forest, or a Tree
"A Forest, or a Tree" is a nightmarish horror story from author Tegan Moore, a Tor.com Original.
Four friends, May, Piper, Ailey, and Elizabeth, go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.
It was just the four of them, four girls alone in the forest.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Four friends, May, Piper, Ailey, and Elizabeth, go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.
It was just the four of them, four girls alone in the forest.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
30 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 26, 2019
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January 1, 2020
WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT!
this explanation/intro will be posted before each day’s short story. scroll down to get to the story-review.
this is the FOURTH year of me doing a short story advent calendar as my december project. for those of you new to me or this endeavor, here’s the skinny: every day in december, i will be reading a short story that is 1) available free somewhere on internet, and 2) listed on goodreads as its own discrete entity. there will be links provided for those of you who like to read (or listen to) short stories for free, and also for those of you who have wildly overestimated how many books you can read in a year and are freaking out about not meeting your 2019 reading-challenge goals. i have been gathering links all year when tasty little tales have popped into my feed, but i will also accept additional suggestions, as long as they meet my aforementioned 1), 2) standards.
if you scroll to the end of the reviews linked here, you will find links to all the previous years’ stories, which means NINETY-THREE FREEBIES FOR YOU!
2016: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2017: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2018: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
reviews of these will vary in length/quality depending on my available time/brain power.
so, let’s begin
DECEMBER 15
despite having such low ratings on here, i needed to read this story for myself.
that cover:
that synopsis:
Four young women go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.
that opener:
how could something with this many ticks in its "pro"column be anything but wonderful? although, to be fair, this kind of wide-eyed optimism could have gone as poorly for me as it did for the characters in the story:
Nobody except Ailey had ever been backpacking before. But probably they’d all be fine.
AND YET! i found myself loving most of this one. true, some of the dialogue/banter was mildly irksome, and some of the Big Horror Moments skirted a firm commitment by using that lovecraftian thumbed-nose; describing a figure, the details of which her eyes could not negotiate, which is a thing you KNOW i don't like. but i, for one, loved the ending. or nonending. and i know i give a lot of four-stars around these parts, because i upround and think beyond my own personal enjoyment into the larger sphere of "can i identify a reader for this?" the review space is mine, all mine, to work out my own issues, but the stars are for eeeeveryone (LGM), and i am using my precious review-space-words to declare my "more-than-like" for this one; loving all but a few parts, which is true of everything i've ever read and everyone i've ever known, so that seems a pretty fair judgment.
i love you, be safe and unpoked.
read it for yourself here:
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this explanation/intro will be posted before each day’s short story. scroll down to get to the story-review.
this is the FOURTH year of me doing a short story advent calendar as my december project. for those of you new to me or this endeavor, here’s the skinny: every day in december, i will be reading a short story that is 1) available free somewhere on internet, and 2) listed on goodreads as its own discrete entity. there will be links provided for those of you who like to read (or listen to) short stories for free, and also for those of you who have wildly overestimated how many books you can read in a year and are freaking out about not meeting your 2019 reading-challenge goals. i have been gathering links all year when tasty little tales have popped into my feed, but i will also accept additional suggestions, as long as they meet my aforementioned 1), 2) standards.
if you scroll to the end of the reviews linked here, you will find links to all the previous years’ stories, which means NINETY-THREE FREEBIES FOR YOU!
2016: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2017: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2018: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
reviews of these will vary in length/quality depending on my available time/brain power.
so, let’s begin
DECEMBER 15
“Wait.” Piper opened her eyes. “I’ll be here alone?”
“Don’t worry, Pip,” Elizabeth said. “Nothing bad ever happens in the woods during daylight.”
despite having such low ratings on here, i needed to read this story for myself.
that cover:
that synopsis:
Four young women go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.
that opener:
It was just the four of them, four girls alone in the forest.
“Everything is dicks,” Elizabeth said. She gestured at the gnarled gray trunks rising bare-limbed into the shade of their own canopy. “I mean, look around. Dicks, dicks, dicks.”
how could something with this many ticks in its "pro"column be anything but wonderful? although, to be fair, this kind of wide-eyed optimism could have gone as poorly for me as it did for the characters in the story:
Nobody except Ailey had ever been backpacking before. But probably they’d all be fine.
AND YET! i found myself loving most of this one. true, some of the dialogue/banter was mildly irksome, and some of the Big Horror Moments skirted a firm commitment by using that lovecraftian thumbed-nose; describing a figure, the details of which her eyes could not negotiate, which is a thing you KNOW i don't like. but i, for one, loved the ending. or nonending. and i know i give a lot of four-stars around these parts, because i upround and think beyond my own personal enjoyment into the larger sphere of "can i identify a reader for this?" the review space is mine, all mine, to work out my own issues, but the stars are for eeeeveryone (LGM), and i am using my precious review-space-words to declare my "more-than-like" for this one; loving all but a few parts, which is true of everything i've ever read and everyone i've ever known, so that seems a pretty fair judgment.
i love you, be safe and unpoked.
Elizabeth’s voice took on a storyteller quality, oracular. “At night, the Stick Indians creep up to people’s tents and push a stick through the flap and poke the people inside. Think about it: You’re sitting, it’s right before bed, you’re minding your own business, and all of a sudden this branch comes sliding into your house, all silent and slow, and just pokes you.”
read it for yourself here:
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July 5, 2022
Don’t Go Into the Woods!
Four friends plan a hiking trip in the woods.
May, Ailsa, Piper and Elizabeth are in the middle of the woods when Elizabeth starts freaking everyone out with her ghost stories.
Then one of the girls gets sick and going to get help is mandatory. But who wants to go through the woods?
Four friends plan a hiking trip in the woods.
May, Ailsa, Piper and Elizabeth are in the middle of the woods when Elizabeth starts freaking everyone out with her ghost stories.
Then one of the girls gets sick and going to get help is mandatory. But who wants to go through the woods?
August 1, 2019
This is on my list of the Best Short SFF of June 2019: https://1000yearplan.com/2019/07/01/t...
November 12, 2021
Four friends, May, Piper, Ailey and Elizabeth go on a camping trip to enjoy nature and share scary stories. There's the rational one, the perverted one, the bashful one and the nature-lover; each girl has a very distinct personality and their clashing attitudes made for some funny banter that I honestly wish lasted longer. The story worked best when it focused on comedy and banter, discussing memes in a dark, haunted forest was entertaining, but didn't exactly make for excellent pure horror material. It should've remained a comedy from beginning to end in my opinion. When it started taking itself too seriously and the interactions between the characters was lost, the charm was also lost.
That's my main gripe with the story. The main characters were likable and their conversations were entertaining, but all the build up between them is thrown out the window when they all get separated and it turns into a generic monster movie scenario. The monster isn't explored or talked about at all, it just randomly appears and then the story ends with no explanation, no resolution for any of the characters and everything falls flat. The first half and second half of the story feel extremely disconnected.
Maybe if it was turned into a novella and the characters had more time to naturally intertwine with the story of the monster and the setting, it would've been able to pull off the balance of comedy and horror much more smoothly.
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That's my main gripe with the story. The main characters were likable and their conversations were entertaining, but all the build up between them is thrown out the window when they all get separated and it turns into a generic monster movie scenario. The monster isn't explored or talked about at all, it just randomly appears and then the story ends with no explanation, no resolution for any of the characters and everything falls flat. The first half and second half of the story feel extremely disconnected.
Maybe if it was turned into a novella and the characters had more time to naturally intertwine with the story of the monster and the setting, it would've been able to pull off the balance of comedy and horror much more smoothly.
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June 30, 2019
Dangit people, if you're going to have a story with this much potential, do it the service of a) giving it an ending, and b) not dating it with overspecific references.
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November 29, 2019Оповідання-жахливчик з сайту видавництва Тор. Тематично - про перетини між кріпіпастами про те, що кудись комусь не можна заходити, і легітимними культурними страхами етнічних меншин у суспільстві. Сюжетно про те, як група студенток іде в турпохід лісами, розказує страшні історії про індіанську фольклорну хтонь і влипає в неприємності. Центральна теза звучить як голос кепа очевидності; я не зовсім розумію, як використання расистського постфольклору співіснує з центральною тезою; але як туристка – ніжно люблю жахастики в такому антуражі, тож усе одно цілком потішилася.
July 8, 2019
Shades of Blair Witch and The Ritual. I'd like to see it as a longer piece, and I think it could honestly be effective as a novella.
July 10, 2020
Original Review at Jaunts & Haunts
3.5/5
I give this short story three and a half stars!
I haven't read too many scary camp stories, but it's a niche in the horror genre I really love, so I had to check this out. I boosted this read with camp sounds and nighttime forest sounds to really get the ambience going.
I did enjoy this read despite some flaws that I couldn't overlook during my experience.
Starting off positive, the characters.
The characters worked very well for me. These four girls are clearly in their early to mid twenties, and that shows in the writing. Aisley's the nature expert, Piper the winey one, Elizabeth the perverted storyteller, and May the voice of reason.
May was my favorite as throughout the events of this story she stuck hard to her personality and never completely freaked. At first I did have minor trouble keeping up with who was who, but as the characters' personalities shine through the dialogue it became much easier.
The concept and plot is what really drew me in. Like I said, I haven't really read any scary camp stories, and I wanted to experience that. There's definitely some strange stuff happening throughout this story, and though it wasn't crazy intense for me, there was enough chill factor to keep me going. I was entertained.
I kept thinking what I would do in their situation. It was really creepy!
Where things fell apart for me was the ending. I mean, what the heck man? We got all this good buildup just for it to kind of fizzle out at the end. I was a little miffed at that. When you read a story, you want the end to justify you reading it, and there wasn't much of a payoff here. If the ending was better, I probably would've at least rated a four.
In the end, this story was fun but could have been a bit better with the ending. I would definitely give this author another chance for future works, but I'm gonna be eyeballing that ending skeptically.
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I give this short story three and a half stars!
I haven't read too many scary camp stories, but it's a niche in the horror genre I really love, so I had to check this out. I boosted this read with camp sounds and nighttime forest sounds to really get the ambience going.
I did enjoy this read despite some flaws that I couldn't overlook during my experience.
Starting off positive, the characters.
The characters worked very well for me. These four girls are clearly in their early to mid twenties, and that shows in the writing. Aisley's the nature expert, Piper the winey one, Elizabeth the perverted storyteller, and May the voice of reason.
May was my favorite as throughout the events of this story she stuck hard to her personality and never completely freaked. At first I did have minor trouble keeping up with who was who, but as the characters' personalities shine through the dialogue it became much easier.
The concept and plot is what really drew me in. Like I said, I haven't really read any scary camp stories, and I wanted to experience that. There's definitely some strange stuff happening throughout this story, and though it wasn't crazy intense for me, there was enough chill factor to keep me going. I was entertained.
I kept thinking what I would do in their situation. It was really creepy!
Where things fell apart for me was the ending. I mean, what the heck man? We got all this good buildup just for it to kind of fizzle out at the end. I was a little miffed at that. When you read a story, you want the end to justify you reading it, and there wasn't much of a payoff here. If the ending was better, I probably would've at least rated a four.
In the end, this story was fun but could have been a bit better with the ending. I would definitely give this author another chance for future works, but I'm gonna be eyeballing that ending skeptically.
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February 21, 2020Came to this after reading "John Simnel's First Goshawk" --a short story that blew me away with its power and beauty--by the same author. This one I'm less enthusiastic about. I enjoyed the characterization of the four girls, their conversation, and the gradual ratcheting up of things going wrong, but when the story devolved into a straight-out monster story, I lost interest. I'm just profoundly uninterested in monsters qua monsters. Definitely a case of YMMV.
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February 21, 2020There was something awful, May thought, awful in the original sense of the word, about looking up.
The cover totally caught my eye, but I felt like the story itself needed more.
The cover totally caught my eye, but I felt like the story itself needed more.
July 29, 2020
The premise was really interesting but
(a) What was that ending?
(b) the white author kept fixating on May being a PoC and how her skin was. May compares her skin tone to the other girls at the most random point? I'm not really sure but she felt like the token black character.
(a) What was that ending?
(b) the white author kept fixating on May being a PoC and how her skin was. May compares her skin tone to the other girls at the most random point? I'm not really sure but she felt like the token black character.
December 22, 2019
That's it? That's the end?
April 29, 2022
Review 10: A Forest, or a Tree by Tegan Moore
Four friends -all but one are relatively inexperienced- get lost in the forest during their camping trip. To compound matters, one of them gets sick, necessitating that they split up for help. But are they alone in the woods? Or is something ancient stalking them, its true form unknown?
Despite its lackluster ending, this short tale delivers on every front. Moore gives us realistic characters, discussions on the genesis of myth and legends (and how the present ones are created), familiar (but still solid) creepy situations, and a great antagonist. Also, I love how Moore escalates the situation from bad to worse; as someone who has been in somewhat similar situations (minus a monster hunting me down), I could feel the desperation of the characters.
But hey, I do agree the ending should have been much better and more inventive. It could have been much more than an ancient spirit hunting them down. I got that sense when the story moved from the forest to the house, but alas, it just ends.
Four friends -all but one are relatively inexperienced- get lost in the forest during their camping trip. To compound matters, one of them gets sick, necessitating that they split up for help. But are they alone in the woods? Or is something ancient stalking them, its true form unknown?
Despite its lackluster ending, this short tale delivers on every front. Moore gives us realistic characters, discussions on the genesis of myth and legends (and how the present ones are created), familiar (but still solid) creepy situations, and a great antagonist. Also, I love how Moore escalates the situation from bad to worse; as someone who has been in somewhat similar situations (minus a monster hunting me down), I could feel the desperation of the characters.
But hey, I do agree the ending should have been much better and more inventive. It could have been much more than an ancient spirit hunting them down. I got that sense when the story moved from the forest to the house, but alas, it just ends.
July 18, 2019
this story definitely has its moments, but since the first 3/4 is so dialogue-heavy, this really prevented the story from building any sort of tone or atmosphere. (the fact that much of the dialogue reads like it came straight out of tumblr probably didn't help its case, either.)
however, the prose - when it was allowed to shine - was gorgeous. it was visceral and poetic; moore paints a picture quite masterfully with her words:
There was no trail, per se. Deer tracks cut through the heaped undergrowth here and there, making their way easier. It was green everywhere—thick, luxurious, luminous green, with the occasional slash of red leaves bleeding in contrast. Moss fogged rocks and dead trees. Branches draped lichen like hair. They passed into a stand of deciduous trees, birch maybe, all of which canted to the left, as though the land had abruptly dropped out from under them on one side. Wind shushed the leaves.
however, the prose - when it was allowed to shine - was gorgeous. it was visceral and poetic; moore paints a picture quite masterfully with her words:
There was no trail, per se. Deer tracks cut through the heaped undergrowth here and there, making their way easier. It was green everywhere—thick, luxurious, luminous green, with the occasional slash of red leaves bleeding in contrast. Moss fogged rocks and dead trees. Branches draped lichen like hair. They passed into a stand of deciduous trees, birch maybe, all of which canted to the left, as though the land had abruptly dropped out from under them on one side. Wind shushed the leaves.
August 6, 2020
A novella with the promise of a good story but with a climax that falls flat. I get open-ended endings, leaving things on a hook, but there's a way of doing it that doesn't annoy the reader. Moore's writing goes from realism to overly vague description which also doesn't help the sudden end. Overall it came off as one of the more middling stories you'd find on r/nosleep, which the author surely frequents based on the constant references to reddit. For a short, free story give it a go, but if you're looking for something scarier, with more depth, that won't leave you feeling more annoyed than creeped out, check out The Ritual instead; it's the same story but done better.
February 16, 2020
I get why most people have issues with the ending, I certainly would have liked more but so much of this worked for me. The dialogue between the four women was instantly enjoyable and kept things moving. Then there were those creepy moments, while few they worked effectively. I also appreciated the sad truth of the end. We've come a long way but people will always distrust the unfamiliar and let it blind them to true dangers.
July 7, 2024
I'm a bit conflicted on this one. It feels like the start of a story...but that's about it. It doesn't really have a chance to become anything. I did like it as far as it went...but was very unsatisfied at the end. Not sure if I just missed something (I don't think so) but it just kind of stops and left me wondering what the point was. Not something I would recommend.
August 17, 2019
Quick and entertaining scary story about girls camping in the woods and all the nasty things waiting for them.
April 7, 2020
It was an entertaining story, but I wish there was more.
August 25, 2020
Great dialogue and creepy imagery that comes to a rather abrupt and ambiguous ending that may have been better served by a longer page count.
April 7, 2022
Largely atmospheric, but the ending didn’t hit all that hard given the stakes of the plot, and waaayyy too many references
November 4, 2022
I liked it but it felt more like a teaser for a novel than a short story.
December 31, 2022
Four college girls go for a camping weekend. Things don’t go as planned. One falls to fear of the forest and another to illness. Only the end has that wild Fae magic that should have earlier enlivened a mostly boring story.
October 5, 2020
Interesting read, certainly has a Creepypasta feel to it, save for the POV. Loved the concept of the creature.
March 12, 2020
For the first third of this story, it was less than one star. The dialogue is ridiculous, childish, uninspired, and insulting to the reader's intelligence. Did they really just explain to us what a meme is? And get it wrong on top of that?
Also much of what was said didn't actually make sense. It was as though the author just spilled words onto the page to fill a quota and to quickly get to the next part without actually giving any thought as to what was said. This is apparent in the part where one of the characters tries to explain why they think humans are superior to other creatures. They give some legitimate reasons, but when another character questions her on just one of the things she mentioned, she abandons that topic altogether as well as her stance on it. A deep, complex topic should not be used as filler in a story if it is not going to be developed further and given the attention and thought it deserves.
I'm probably nit-picking, but that's just how my brain works these days.
I'm also not a fan of the man-hating, misguided feminism, and virtue signalling in this story. It's a story about women with an all-female cast, so naturally they will be man-hating feminists, right? Truly annoying stuff.
Why do so many stories these days have to inject identity politics and virtue signalling into fictional tales? Just tell me the story. Stop trying to show us how woke you are.
But once we got past all that, the story was actually quite good. I was invested in the characters and curious to know where the plot would go and how it would all turn out. I even liked the cliff-hanger ending. It might have been a bit of a cop-out for the author to avoid having to make any decisions and write an actual story and ending, but this is the first time I've really seen this done, so I'm OK with it. If this becomes a common trope, then I'll get upset. As for now, I thought it was creative and interesting.
I thought the foreshadowing and red herrings worked well enough. If the story was longer these things could probably have been better fleshed out.
My enjoyment of the overall plot and pacing of the story added another star. If the dialogue were improved and the author's agenda removed, this story would get a higher rating from me.
Also much of what was said didn't actually make sense. It was as though the author just spilled words onto the page to fill a quota and to quickly get to the next part without actually giving any thought as to what was said. This is apparent in the part where one of the characters tries to explain why they think humans are superior to other creatures. They give some legitimate reasons, but when another character questions her on just one of the things she mentioned, she abandons that topic altogether as well as her stance on it. A deep, complex topic should not be used as filler in a story if it is not going to be developed further and given the attention and thought it deserves.
I'm probably nit-picking, but that's just how my brain works these days.
I'm also not a fan of the man-hating, misguided feminism, and virtue signalling in this story. It's a story about women with an all-female cast, so naturally they will be man-hating feminists, right? Truly annoying stuff.
Why do so many stories these days have to inject identity politics and virtue signalling into fictional tales? Just tell me the story. Stop trying to show us how woke you are.
But once we got past all that, the story was actually quite good. I was invested in the characters and curious to know where the plot would go and how it would all turn out. I even liked the cliff-hanger ending. It might have been a bit of a cop-out for the author to avoid having to make any decisions and write an actual story and ending, but this is the first time I've really seen this done, so I'm OK with it. If this becomes a common trope, then I'll get upset. As for now, I thought it was creative and interesting.
I thought the foreshadowing and red herrings worked well enough. If the story was longer these things could probably have been better fleshed out.
My enjoyment of the overall plot and pacing of the story added another star. If the dialogue were improved and the author's agenda removed, this story would get a higher rating from me.
June 26, 2019
It was okay, but I'm finding that more and more newer stories, I guess in order to reflect how younger generations behave*, have weird interludes that clash with the flow of the story or simply mess with the premise, especially when it's a horror story. This one is kind of self-aware about it, but still.
I mean, reading about people arguing about what a meme is or about the internet, instead of making the story seem more real like the scene in the original Star Wars where Obi-Wan eavesdrops on two Stormptroopers discussing speeders (cars) they like, it only reminds me that people have cellphones and most classic horror movie tropes are defeated by a simple device that can negate isolation.
*Or how the writer thinks younger generations behave.
I mean, reading about people arguing about what a meme is or about the internet, instead of making the story seem more real like the scene in the original Star Wars where Obi-Wan eavesdrops on two Stormptroopers discussing speeders (cars) they like, it only reminds me that people have cellphones and most classic horror movie tropes are defeated by a simple device that can negate isolation.
*Or how the writer thinks younger generations behave.
December 21, 2019
Recommended by legendary Goodreads user @karen in her annual December Project as a quick & dirty way to meet my yearly challenge, A Forest, or A Tree is a spooky piece of short fiction about four young women on a camping trip where things start going horribly wrong. I think this story has so much potential. I quickly got a sense of character and place, as well as a real experience of ominous mood that propelled me forward seeking answers. I’m deducting a star for an abrupt ending that left me with too many logistical questions.
October 7, 2019
I agree with some of the other readers. I loved the premise and the ambiance. The tension builds nicely. However, the vague abruptness of the ending is a bit off-putting. I wanted more backstory. Why would May be singled out? I felt like there was supposed to be a message there and I missed it.
Actual rating: 3.5
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Actual rating: 3.5
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January 22, 2020
Very enjoyable while reading, couldn't stop reading so I was thrown off when I got to the end. It was just suddenly done...no more story. I think the author was trying to leave the reader in suspense to add to the creepiness. But it didn't. It left me feeling like I just read the sampler of a bigger book or the writer hit their max word count and just stopped there.
October 12, 2019
A horror story involving four women on a hiking trip in the woods. I am not a fan of horror stories but this was well written and interesting although things seemed to happen which made no sense and the story had no real end. The racial element also seemed unnecessary and forced.
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