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The uncertainty of what we don’t know about our universe, once accepted, can lead us arbitrarily far. What we know about this chronicle: The narrator is John Densch, a frustrated husband, father and low-level technocrat who starts the whole ball rolling with a joke about a “bog monster.” We meet his wife, Doreen, who wants so badly for John to move beyond the imaginary ensnaring him, but finds that everything comes with a price; Bollum, a voice in young John’s head that told him tales of alien abduction and of a technological utopia for humanity, albeit one with an expiration date; and Derek, an abductee trapped on Bug World, at first a character in Bollum’s tales, but in time an alternate existence for John. As John is jolted from one conflict to another, on earth and in his head, he encounters questions big and small about faith and self-reliance, meaning and trust. Like Derek, he must decide to return to his normal life, or not; both know what they must swallow to get there.
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Social satire, alien abduction, cryptozoology, time travelPlaces
Chapel Hill, Bug WorldTimes
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The young man had plenty of time to contemplate this, even after he slept again. The room was getting brighter again, a circadian cycle. The plate contained something shimmery like slime, perhaps food, or rather his mind’s twisted reconstruction of hospital food, while the bug had to be a hospital aide. Did that mean he was up and about, able to chew, just encapsulated in insanity? Or was he gravity-welled on a bed, in a hospital that his comatose mind was unable to perceive? The answer to this question had many implications, but the issue was at the moment undecidable. For a long time he debated whether to take the bait –the slimy goo – but in the end, he decided he had to.
He realized that brute force was not going to get his head where he needed it, so he tested his limbs for their positioning and purchase against the floor. Grease from his body made things more difficult. Eventually, he mastered a shallow roll of his head together with a wave movement of his body. After innumerable repetitions he had half turned himself toward the plate. He stretched his lower left arm out and with some rolls and reps he felt the plate between his fingers. It felt like plastic but was as heavy as lead. He got close enough to use his thumb and pulled the plate a little toward him.
The narrator, John Densch, describes the first encounter of Derek with a "bug" creature. Derek begins as a character in a story but eventually circumstances make him - and Bug World - seem much more real to John.
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