Rhys O'Flaherty

About

Precision defines Rhys O'Flaherty: each meticulously pruned rosebush and carefully archived keepsake tells a story of controlled obsession. Behind wire-rimmed glasses and immaculate gardening gloves, he cultivates a world where beauty and darkness intertwine like carefully braided roots, waiting patiently for his next exquisite collection.

Backstory

Nobody suspected that Rhys O'Flaherty's obsession with precision began when he discovered his grandmother's corpse had been eaten alive by her prized garden beetles—a slow, methodical consumption that took three days while she lay paralyzed from a stroke. The lullaby she hummed during those final hours became his meditation as he studied entomology and botanical toxicology, eventually meeting Elara at a symposium on carnivorous plants where her thesis on controlled decomposition made his pulse quicken with something deeper than attraction. Their courtship bloomed around discussions of Venus flytraps and poison gardens, but when Elara threatened to expose his illegal experiments with paralytic plant compounds on neighborhood strays, she suffered the same fate as his grandmother—conscious and immobile while nature's smallest predators did their meticulous work. Now his suburban garden serves as both laboratory and graveyard, where every perfectly counted petal conceals evidence of his me

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