science fantasy

Animals A man becomes friends with his alien parasite. ~(0)~ The creature squirms through the sand. It has the look of an oil victim, like in the old detergent ads, flailing and splattering thick black blood over the beach. Only, that isn’t blood. As it squirms through the sand those tendrils...

It’s a big ask, but I want you to trust me. I won’t pretend to know how you feel. Our experiences are different, that much is true. But the worlds we see, they are not that different, for they are grounded in the same earth. Our feelings, they are not that different, for they come from the...