Goodnight My Love

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Guy and Mandeela have dinner with a work friend his wife and their parasitic alien baby. The tender evening convinces the couple. On the other side of four abdominal eruptions they too will have a family.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The procedure is called PIPS-Plasmanellid Implantation Pregnancy Sequence--but the couple will not know what a plasmanellid is or the true toll of the eruptions until one of them is dead. Mystery shrouds the conception technology which is not administered by a hospital but a church--a cult that keeps an unholy secret chained in a cave.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>***</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Goodnight My Love</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> was originally published as an audio series on </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Story Must Be Told</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> podcast. It is collected here with an additional afterword on the biographical inspiration for the story.</span></p>