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Can we find another solution, since Mr. Scully won't listen to Emily's pleas to hear us out right now during his science class?

Another super-cohesive ending with a solution that makes sense. Bangarang for you, Laban Carrick Hill!

If we show some patience and wait with Emily in the hospital, can the medical staff restore our human form?

I love the attention this book pays to complex continuity between story paths. Laban Carrick Hill hit a home run with Bugged Out!, the first major objective success of Choose Your Own Nightmare. What a gamebook.

Does the hospital possess the cure to our fly syndrome? Can they restore my human form?

Give yourself over to your baser instincts, to hedonistic appetite, and it's easy to forget you're a human with higher purpose. This book is profound.

What happens if we give ourselves over to the gross temptations of a fly's appetite?

Squashed by our own mother on the kitchen countertop. She'll never even know why she never sees you again, or that she unknowingly killed her own child in the form of a fly.

This time we'll immediately try to get help from our mother after our transformation into a fly. I have the feeling this won't end well...

Mr. Scully was able to change me back into a human, but I wonder if he ever figures out how to get rid of the four extra arms.

A risky gambit to attract Mr. Scully's attention to our problem.

We're completely reversing course now, and going with Emily to see if the science teacher at school can cure our transformation into the body of a housefly.

Our insect appetite led to our death by spider. That's what happens when appetite enslaves you...

This is such an insightful part of the book, but one I rarely get to. It has deep things to say about natural inclinations and how one deals with the onus of appetite.