Cover Art: Fritosparrow
This article first appeared on The Horror Complex, a series by Manor Entertainment, now available in podcast.

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“The Thing Is” by Brian Martinez

I was assimilated as a child.

Growing up in the suburbs of Long Island, there were pretty much two directions a person could drive once they crossed one of the bridges to the mainland. One was into the great city of Manhattan, the perpetually-beating heart of the United States, where dreams lived and died by the minute. The other was...