Parasite

by Justine Sebastian

Victor has always had his demons and the roads they have led him down are many and varied. Even the love of his life, Garrett, cannot silence them. After nearly twenty years the weight of loving Victor finally grows too heavy and Garrett can't take anymore.

Left heartbroken, Victor's demons drive him to brink of no return. Alone and terrified with no one else to turn to, Victor calls the only person he can think Garrett. Garrett has always been Victor's hero, but this time even he might not be able to save him.

Drawn back together by brutal fate, Victor and Garrett are left with no choice but to face the fact they might both pay the ultimate price before all is said and done.

This is a horror story about love.

Genres: Fantasy

144 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 17, 2016

About the author

Justine Sebastian began writing at the age of four. It took her quite a few years longer to realize she might actually be able to make a living doing so. She was born and raised in the south and does indeed have an accent. She does NOT write romance novels.

Readers can contact her via email at: just_sebastian@outlook.com. She promises not to bite unless you ask her to.

Reviews

[J.L. Aarne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really loved Victor, he was cute and funny--as junkies sometimes are from a distance--and really horrible things happened to him throughout the book, but I actually felt worse for Garrett. While I liked the ending, I was kind of inwardly cringing about how it had turned out between Victor and Garrett, but I did like that the author did it anyway. So many books featuring drug addicted or alcoholic or otherwise damaged characters make a point of fixing them up nice and neat by the end of it in a way that I find totally unbelievable and unrealistic. That did not happen here and I was so glad.

My favorite thing ever from this book though is Victor seeing a universe inside his ratty old shoe. Funniest shit ever.

I'm actually not big a fan of horror novels--or movies--because they turn out to be such a let down or so predictable, but I am a fan of Justine Sebastian. There is usually a horror element even when the story isn't itself horror, but it's not predictable. You don't see it coming usually. She will go there. I have to respect that wherever I find it these days. This was horrifying to me in large part because of the subject matter--pregnancy and babies of unknown origin. I also like that she took the trope of male pregnancy--again--and made it truly disgusting, because it is.

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful in its horrible-ness of abuse, addiction and codependence. Was it going to end with a sci-fi allegory or psychotic delusion?
JS, are you extremely imaginative and dark or is your writing therapeutic? Man, I hope it's the former.

"There are moments that the words don't reach,
There is suffering too terrible to name" - Lin-Manuel Miranda It's Quiet Uptown

Listened to Kelly Clarkson sing the above on loop while reading.