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A coming of age story about Pete, a Toxoplasma gondii, who wants nothing more than to follow his father's footsteps and make his home in the belly of a cat. But when he ends up in the belly of The Human instead, Peter Gondii must use the extent of his will and engineering might to fulfill his promise and overcome the impossible burden of fate and chance.
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"I write weird books." Dark existential fiction that is just as rich in philosophy as it is strange and unsettling. From the reclusive mind of Irish writer, C.SeanMcGee, weird and wonderful stories that delve into the perverse and ever lurking shadow of humanity.
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The Parasite - C. Sean McGee
The Parasite
a short story by
C. Sean McGee
The Parasite
Copyright© C. Sean McGee
CSM Publishing
Published at Smashwords
Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil 2018
First Edition
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means including photocopying, recording, scanning or digital information storage and retrieval without permission from the author.
Contents
The Genesis
The Fraternity
The Humbug
The Fall
The Tourist
The Hitcher
The Engineer
The Human
The Pilot
The Epiphany
The End
The Genesis
Family is everything.
Mr. Gondii stared, like any proud father would, in glowing praise at his mound of oocysts. It had been a long road; one marked with as many defeats as there were, claims to victory. He had strived so hard and had endured such momentous struggle in his life, but now, looking out over the home he had built with his own blood, sweat, and tears, it was so patently obvious that it had all been worth it.
It was hard to tell if he was paying homage to his own efforts or to those of his father before him. What did not get lost in semantics, though, was the love in his heart, and like any noble father, what he would demand of himself and what sacrifices he would make for no other reason than the good of his children.
And of them there were thousands, all coiled together, ready to make their way into the
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