MSTB Ate My Friend

<p><strong>A UCI physics student infected by a cosmic parasite gets hungry.</strong></p><p>MSTB ATE MY FRIEND: An Aldrich Horror.</p><p>A sapphic dark academia cosmic parasite horror comedy novella 11k words.</p><p></p><p>HELEN HERNANDEZ. An undergraduate physics student set for grad school- until her friend Emmy Yuasa goes missing. Dragged away by the eldritch horror beneath Aldrich. Zot zot zot. The strings are starving.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I sat alone in Aldrich Park. Griffiths Electrodynamics in one hand. A cryptozoologist's Field Guide to Cryptids in the other. Black painted nails and a big bottle of alcohol between my knees. Laughing to myself in the shade of a billowy tree as mud mucked my slacks...</p><p></p><p></p><p>The answer was obvious. Trivial even. This was something different. Something inconceivable. Something confined to the grounds of the University of California Irvine. And to stop it I had to kill the thing inside the walls of MSTB.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Content warnings include swearing alcohol death violence blood gore body horror psychological horror cannibalism cults and parasitic infection.</p>