The Pitcher

The private papers of Eleanor Fell, disgraced botanist, recovered from Lord Ashworth's estate in 1909. In the spring of 1908, a young woman of science is granted access to a private greenhouse containing a pitcher plant of impossible perfection. What begins as careful botanical observation becomes something far less certain. The journal she keeps records the dissolution of the boundary between observer and specimen -- or perhaps reveals that the boundary was never there at all. A gothic horror short story told through diary entries. Complete in one chapter.