{"product_id":"mstb-ate-my-friend-kienn-nguyen-9798349290923","title":"MSTB Ate My Friend: An Aldrich Horror Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA UCI physics student infected by a cosmic parasite gets hungry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMSTB ATE MY FRIEND: An Aldrich Horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sapphic dark academia cosmic parasite horror comedy novella, 11k words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHELEN HERNANDEZ. An undergraduate physics student set for grad school- until her friend, Emmy Yuasa, goes missing. Dragged away by the eldritch horror beneath Aldrich. Zot, zot, zot. The strings are starving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI sat alone in Aldrich Park. Griffiths Electrodynamics in one hand. A cryptozoologist's Field Guide to Cryptids in the other. Black painted nails and a big bottle of alcohol between my knees. Laughing to myself in the shade of a billowy tree as mud mucked my slacks...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answer was obvious. Trivial even. This was something different. Something inconceivable. Something confined to the grounds of the University of California, Irvine. And to stop it I had to kill the thing inside the walls of MSTB.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContent warnings include swearing, alcohol, death, violence, blood, gore, body horror, psychological horror, cannibalism, cults, and parasitic infection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kienn Nguyen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798349290923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kienn Nguyen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.23d","brand":"Kienn Nguyen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46907304050943,"sku":"9798349290923","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb2ba221-a92b-4beb-8758-6ec6ed9a548b.jpg?v=1748772932","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mstb-ate-my-friend-kienn-nguyen-9798349290923","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}