The Black Pomegranate Seeds

Video Description: “The Black Pomegranate Seeds” Trailer. Duration, 45 seconds. “Immortals (seamless)” by Nicholas Jeudy. Digital drawing. At center, a pomegranate fruit, sliced open to reveal clusters of seeds within, large clusters of bright red seeds and smaller clusters of dark red seeds. The pomegranate is being held up by a hand emerging from the bottom. The hand’s colors match the seeds. In the background aligning with the portion of arm and wrist and expanding up and to the sides are bright branching shapes and leafy shapes, all shaded green. Scattered among the branches are the faint shapes of whole pomegranate fruits. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Fairy Tale,” is displayed at top. Tagline is displayed at bottom. It reads: “An inventor finds a way for a human to spawn a multitude of progeny at once, and soon realizes that she must stop her own monstrous invention.” Lines from the story appear in sequence at bottom: “With a pair of metal tongs, the inventor pried loose one of her teeth, and held it up. Dripping dark red blood, the white tooth just shown beneath a thin coating of soft red. This was the seed she placed within the empty black seed-egg, ensuring the being that grew within would be her own.” Animations: A drop of blood drips from the word “red” the first time the word appears. Site URL appears at bottom center throughout and fades at end. As the last line disappears, the story title appears at center, and a text card appears at top that reads “Available to Read Now.”