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.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.***Goodnight My Love was originally published as an audio series on The Story Must Be Told podcast. It is collected here with an additional afterword on the biographical inspiration for the story.
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.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.***Goodnight My Love was originally published as an audio series on The Story Must Be Told podcast. It is collected here with an additional afterword on the biographical inspiration for the story.
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