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    A Plague of Steve: Odd choices & Disturbing Behavior, #2
    A Plague of Steve: Odd choices & Disturbing Behavior, #2
    A Plague of Steve: Odd choices & Disturbing Behavior, #2
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    A Plague of Steve: Odd choices & Disturbing Behavior, #2

    By B. K. Brain

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    Steve is about to realize that he is never truly alone. Tiny unwelcomes are waiting in every room, plotting in every corner. Can he find the strength to fight back with a plague of his own?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Holtz
    Release dateNov 18, 2015
    ISBN9781519908865
    A Plague of Steve: Odd choices & Disturbing Behavior, #2

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      A Plague of Steve - B. K. Brain

      Stagnant rainwater sat stinking in the bottom of an old trashcan in the backyard. It was slimy, dark, and home to thousands of floating mosquito larva. Not six feet away, down in the folds of torn swimming pool vinyl, sat more water teeming with life.

      Under rocks by the alley, centipedes and snails were breeding. Hornets crawled in available nooks and corners up high, around the shed and carport. Flies buzzed randomly though the air. The occasional bumblebee passed through also, looking for children to alarm and flowers to pollinate.

      With each step Steve took, earthworms below the surface felt a jolt. At each quick stride, nearby gatherings of gnats were pushed by displaced air. Grasshoppers watched from within tall weedy areas by the wooden fence. A dusty brown moth flapped just above the lowest porch step. A caterpillar crawled through a bed of flowers while a fat spider hung just overhead, spinning a sticky web.

      Steve entered the house completely oblivious to all of it. If asked, he would have said he’d been alone the whole time. 

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      Steve walked into the dark living room with an armload of groceries. He had two brown bags that contained bread, milk, two cantaloupes, three packages of shredded cheese, peanut butter, jelly, a Maxim magazine and a ten pack of lubricated condoms.

      He also held, in his left hand, a clear plastic baggy. It had been inflated with cashier breath at the local pet store. It was tied at the top with a tight rubber band. The bottom skittered with fourteen live crickets.

      Steve always asked and paid for only a dozen, although he frequently received more. Fourteen was a low number, actually. He’d gotten more than twenty on many occasions. The teenaged boy behind the cash register at Zoo Time Pets obviously had better things to do than count crickets.

      Through the dining room and into the kitchen Steve walked. He set the groceries down on the counter, taking care not to damage the occupants of the baggy. Holding it up, he peered through the hazy plastic. In a frenzied panic, the bugs climbed over and under one another, seeking an escape route.

      You want out of there, do ya? he asked with a grin.

      Back into the living room he walked. A glass tank sat in the corner, on top of the entertainment center. Steve squinted into it, searching. He saw dirt, a rock, plastic plant life, a water dish and an empty toilet paper roll. Then he saw Beeker. Beeker, a small, green lizard, was currently hiding behind a pink imitation flower.

      You hungry, dude? Steve asked, unlatching the screen lid.

      He used a pair of nearby scissors to cut the top off the bag. Without hesitation or second thought, fourteen insects were committed into the box of glass.

      Under normal circumstances, they would’ve been dead within a week or ten days. Each one’s doom would’ve been prompted by digestion, starvation, or drowning. Beeker would eat a half-dozen or so, while others would expire in

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