MSTB Ate My Friend: An Aldrich Horror Novella
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A UCI physics student infected by a cosmic parasite gets hungry.
MSTB ATE MY FRIEND: An Aldrich Horror.
A sapphic dark academia cosmic parasite horror comedy novella, 11k words.
HELEN HERNANDEZ. An undergraduate physics student set for grad school- until her friend, Emmy Yuasa, goes missing. Dragged away by the eldritch horror beneath Aldrich. Zot, zot, zot. The strings are starving.
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I sat alone in Aldrich Park. Griffiths Electrodynamics in one hand. A cryptozoologist's Field Guide to Cryptids in the other. Black painted nails and a big bottle of alcohol between my knees. Laughing to myself in the shade of a billowy tree as mud mucked my slacks...
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The answer was obvious. Trivial even. This was something different. Something inconceivable. Something confined to the grounds of the University of California, Irvine. And to stop it I had to kill the thing inside the walls of MSTB.
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Content warnings include swearing, alcohol, death, violence, blood, gore, body horror, psychological horror, cannibalism, cults, and parasitic infection.
Release 5/29 | Pre-order files will be delivered 5/29
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This was such a fun, wild ride! I loved the gradual worldbuilding and wish it was longer, there was clearly so much in this world to explore. Great job!
My favorite lines:
"Only an uncaring god can have the oldest view. Science and statistics might give us some distance. Get us farther from ego and closer to truth. But the curse of man is that he will never be far enough. He will always be tainted by ego. Models and approximations. Imperfections in perfection."
"Those lovely, deadly eyes."
"Despite everything she was still so damn beautiful."
"As a Woman in STEM (TM) myself, I was already feeling this huge pressure not to be a dumbass in front of my peers."
(in case you couldn't tell I ship Helen/Emmy really hard lol. We can all only hope to find someone who loves enough, whether platonically or romantically, to fight a giant eldritch string monster for us)
I really enjoyed this novella and will totally be telling all my college friends to buy it, since we all definitely understand Helen's pain lmao. (the pain of being a college student. Not the pain of fighting an interdimensional eldritch being)
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