Stories by Hugh Carroll

Her Lunar Hunger

Author:Hugh Carroll

Leo thought he was just cleaning out his grandfather's house. He remembered the old man's eccentricities, the strange way he'd stare into his cupped hands and giggle. But when he finds a box of moonlit photographs chronicling the growth of a secret 'baby girl,' Leo realizes his inheritance isn't a house or money. It's the pale, wriggling parasite that lived in his grandfather's gut. And now, it's hungry again, living inside him, whispering its alien desires and turning his body into a horrifying vessel for something ancient and lunar.