A serial killer that smells people’s words gets more than he bargained for with his latest target.

An initially unwanted infestation fosters understanding between a woman and the cockroaches in her house.

A man adopts a cage full of insects that engage in ritual war against each other and soon comes to be their god. When he begins to act cruelly against them as a corrupt exploration of his own power, the insects escape and begin a killing spree.

Want to know more about an exciting corporate opportunity wherein employers play host to a reptilian parasite designed to increase work productivity? Read this informational pamphlet from your friendly dystopian society to find out! One of the leading gene editing companies in a dystopian future wants to sew a reptilian parasite onto their employee's back in order to increase their work productivity.

A boy finds a mysterious caterpillar-like creature in the forest one day. He brings it home and kills it to add to his wildlife collection, but becomes haunted by creatures he can no longer control.

A catalog of the tools different alien species use to read and write, leading to fundamental questions about what it means to make patterns of knowledge against the noise of the universe.

The female mantis kills her husband ten different ways.

Follow three medically-based arguments across three separate periods of time--all of which are connected by the discoveries of the deviant be rejected by conformity.

An alien race uses humans to host their parasitic offspring. After a human boy witnesses the birth of these parasites, he is horrified by the symbiotic agreement and realizes why the alien has nourished him so much better than his siblings all his life.

When a distant relative dies, a professor receives cryptic messages from an elusive stranger.