Shoggoths in Bloom
20 pages
|Published: 1 Mar 2008
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Format: Ebook
Language: English
Publication date: 1 March 2008
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November, 1938: Professor Paul Harding has come to Passamaquoddy, Maine, to study Oracupoda horibilis, common surf shoggoths, known to locals as “jellies.” He finally finds a fisherman willing to take him out on the bay, where dormant shoggoths bask atop exposed rocks, blooming—that is, exuding indigo and violet tendrils topped with “fruiting bodies” from their blobbish sea-green masses. Though shoggoths can engulf and digest grown humans, in this torpid state they’re safe to approach. The trip out is uncomfortable. The fisherman doesn’t fancy conversation with a highly educated black man, first he’s ever met. Ironic, Harding thinks, that they probably both served in WWI, though of course not in the same units.
