The Patient

An unexplainable and unexpected side effect, which resulted from this discovery - that such creatures can live just as well under skin as under sand, is that in hushed carrier tones they speak to their host. I considered myself not infected, but blessed by the grace of a hideous nature from shoes. Upon returning to the states and dodging quarantine by hiding all of my new friends within the confines of my beard, I set out to hear their story - of a disgraced emperor whose closest were too enamored and fear struck to question any word he gave. I was that emperor, and this is my story.

"If you expected anything but pretentious mush out of McWillie, then you deserve whatever you get. One could derive a higher quality literary effort from a squirrel monkey infected with tertiary syphilis and set up with a methotrexate and wood alcohol IV. But that would at least have some" - Christopher Hughes