BLACK
PINE

Maren and Owen arrive at Black Pine Campground hoping for silence, distance, and one final anniversary trip before Maren’s illness takes whatever is left of their life together. But the campground is deserted, the host site is abandoned, the emergency phone is dead, and something in the old pines seems to know they are there.

After Owen touches black sap inside a split, dead tree, he begins to change. At first it is small: a dark crescent under his nail, strange hearing, a pull toward the woods. Then the campground starts using Maren’s voice to call him, and the dead or half-taken remains of previous campers appear at the edge of their site.

When Maren discovers that salt can hold Owen back, their tent becomes a fragile refuge and a prison. The truck keys are clipped to Owen’s belt, the phones have no service, the salt line is thinning, and the thing inside him knows exactly how to use their marriage…