They Breed Like Flies by Jeff Walden

They Breed Like Flies

Many thanks to David Baur and other Compelling Science Fiction subscribers for funding this story through Patreon. The sky opened when I was wandering in the marketplace. I'd been suffering in full teenage molt. My carapace bound me like some evil torture device and I felt like I'd sprouted extra elbows and knees designed solely to knock ancestral vases from their display shelves to the floor.

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