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    Diary of a Maggot
    Diary of a Maggot
    Diary of a Maggot
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    Diary of a Maggot

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    A murder victim makes a tasty feast for a family of flesh-eating maggots. But when the maggots become the murderer's next targets, their gruesome banquet turns into a killing field. Can a single courageous worm with a vision inspire the survivors to fight back? Perhaps a brilliant, twisted trick will bring down the monster and serve up the meat for a bloody new feast. And the maggots' moment of glory might give way to the dark fulfillment of their deepest, wildest secret.

    Don't miss this twisted horror tale with a difference, available here as an e-book for the first time. Welcome to the latest shocker from award-winning storyteller Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of mind-bending horror and dark fantasy.

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    Robert T. Jeschonek "sees the world like no one else sees it, and makes incredibly witty, incisive stories out of that skewed worldview." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Starship series

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateFeb 25, 2011
    ISBN9781458010186
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      Book preview

      Diary of a Maggot - Robert Jeschonek

      Diary of a Maggot

      Diary of a Maggot

      A Horror Story

      Robert Jeschonek

      Pie Press

      Contents

      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      Diary of a Maggot

      About the Author

      Special Preview: Bloodliner

      DIARY OF A MAGGOT

      Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek

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      Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin

      www.benbaldwin.co.uk

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved by the author.

      Published by Blastoff Books

      An Imprint of Pie Press

      411 Chancellor Street

      Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15904

      www.blastoffbooks.net

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      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      Bloodliner

      Daddy’s Little Girl

      Dionysus Dying

      Day 9

      Heaven Bent

      Diary of a Maggot

      Did you ever wonder what maggots are singing about as we squirm through a swath of rancid meat?  As we nibble the steaming feast, growing fatter with each delicious bite?

      It's a secret.

      All I'm allowed to tell you is that it's the same song we've sung since the beginning of maggots.  The same beautiful tune that has lilted through countless trash dumps, graves, fields, marshes, and homes throughout the countless eons.

      And we're singing it again tonight as we comb through this bag of rotten refuse.  As I and my hundreds of brothers, freshly hatched from Mother's eggs, devour the precious food we need to thrive.

      This is paradise.  The air inside the plastic bag is rank and humid.  We move in absolute darkness, the only sound our twitching and nibbling.

      And singing.

      Here we are, side by side, working hard for a common purpose.  Working to eat and grow and change and become mothers and fathers ourselves.  Can there be any more perfect happiness?

      I'm writing my own song about it as I feed, composing it in my mind.  A song about the Good Work At Hand and the Dream of Flight. That one thing I long for above all others:  to lift off, to soar. Soon, I will have it, we all will.  We were born

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