On episode #3 of Josh’s Worst Nightmare, host Josh Schlossberg bugs out with Lindsay King-Miller, author of THE FRUIT, to uncover matricidal spiders, tear-drinking moths, and beetles that lay eggs in corpses.
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Flies by Christopher DiLeo
Deadman’s Tome: Campfire Tales (2017)
THEY CARRY DISEASE.
THEY BUZZ AROUND AND BITE YOU.
THEY ALSO LAY EGGS.
Art: Animalia Life
Josh Schlossberg’s short story, “Drain” leads off the July 2017 issue of Bards and Sages Quarterly, along with 16 other speculative fiction authors’ amazing tales!
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Excerpt:
As I lay in bed, leafing through my old hardcover copy of Talking to Heaven, I felt a tickle on my wrist. Some sort of beetle the size of an apple seed, flat and brown, nonchalantly crawled up my arm, as if out for an evening stroll. I shrieked and blew it onto the nightstand.
Since I’ve lived in the city my whole life, only getting out into the country a handful of times over the years, I was never much of a fan of bugs. Spiders hunched in dark corners. Bloated worms rotting on the sidewalk after a rain. Fruit flies buzzing around the sink in a cloud of filth. I know insects are a part of nature, but so is the flu—just because something’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good…
Art: Alejandro Mirabal
I have no idea what these are and I hope I never find out.
Graphic: Favim.com
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