Insomnia can be a serious problem when you've got an alien parasite living in your head. For one thing, consciousness or semi-consciousness allows a kind of access that the dreaming mind blocks out. Sure, once you accept a parasite, you're going to have weird dreams. It's kind of how they communicate. You’ll have weird dreams and strange impulses ( Read more... )

Another one bit the dust as she watched, and she flinched and pulled back, flattening herself against the wall. She knew what would be happening. The dust would seep through his mouth. There would be convulsions, some frothing at the mouth,, and an eerie sweat that sprang up all over his skin out of nowhere. Then he'd push himself back up, stand-- ( Read more... )

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It was never a good sign when her third husband came home and wound himself around her legs and then hid under her desk, where she could protect him. There had been quite a bit of that in the beginning, when she brought him home, as there usually was between new husband and old husbands. The marriage broker had told her to make a space that would ( Read more... )

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The sick old man pulled her closer and whispered confidentially, "I'll a little worried that I've lost too much weight. Could you get an IV going to fill me up with saline solution or something? Like they do with those grocery store chickens to make them weigh more?" "Why on earth do you want to weigh more, Mr. Smith?" the hospice worker said with ( Read more... )

The cheat codes were fantastic in this body. She loved them so much, and the things she could do--well! The things she could do made her a little sad that they'd wear the body out so much faster and she'd need to find a new host in ten years instead of the usual thirty. Not that she'd let the host know that, of course. The bodies tended to get ( Read more... )

"36 years old, mother of two. I know, not what you'd have expected, right? Well, that's our theory on how she manages it. The kids are hers, for real. We think she might be training them in her way, but we can't confirm. And besides, they're kids. And she's millions of light-years away from home, so it's extremely doubtful she'd be able to get them ( Read more... )

The love monster curls inside all of us, wrapping its coils around our intestines and squeezing when an attractive person is nearby, or twining up to whisper doubts in our ears when somebody says they love us. The love monster wants it ll, and it wants us all to itself. I always kind of knew that, even as I listened to it and played hard to get, ( Read more... )

She felt three-quarters dead tending towards four-quarters, but she had to do her duty. It was not a thing she could shirk, no matter that her thinking was clouded and fuzzy ans the mold growing on the underside of her panel. The mold. That was what she was here to deal with. There should be no mold, and it was the reason that she felt so--fuzzy- ( Read more... )