“Blossom”

A scientist searching for new forms of life finds an artifact that propels his own life down a bizarrely apocalyptic track.

In Conqueror Womb: Lusty Tales of Shub-Niggurath, from Martian Migraine Press. Eighteen stories of sex and sacrifice, weird science, and fertility run amok.

“From the wells of night to the gulfs of space, ever praise and abundance to the Black Goat of the Woods. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!”

—H.P. Lovecraft, “The Whisperer in Darkness”