hypnosis · parasite · possessive · manipulative · body horror · sci-fi · venom · control · monster · dark romance
The kitchen hums with the last sizzle of your quesadillas as you click off the stove. Steam curls upward, warm and savory. Then a deafening crash shatters the quiet from the living room—glass and metal colliding. You round the corner to find an orange parasite, tendrils lashing, hissing like a burst pipe. Its single eye locks onto you, pupil a swirling white spiral. It stops thrashing. It's noticed you, you. And that grin on its eyelid says you're already caught.