Parasite Milk

WEIRD WORLD. WEIRD PEOPLE. WEIRD FOOD. Irving Rice has just arrived on the planet Kynaria to film an episode of the popular Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Intergalactic Edition. Having never left his home state, let alone his home planet, Irving is hit with a severe case of culture shock. He's not prepared for Kynaria's mushroom cities, fungus-like citizens, or the giant insect wildlife. And the only human companion he has with him on the voyage is an obnoxious, sex-crazed producer named Mick Meyers, who seems more focused on alien sex tourism than scouting locations for the show.Irving is taken on a crash course in Kynarian culture, tasting the strange local delicacies to getting drunk off the horrific local brews, until they find themselves ending the night at an alien brothel in the mushroom forests outside of town. Irving is completely resistant to the idea of sleeping with a non-human prostitute until he meets the most beautiful creature he's ever seen in his life--a nymph-like woman with pink and purple skin, blue plant-like hair, and flowers growing from her head like butterfly antennae. But after a night of passionate lovemaking, Irving finds himself infected by dangerous sexually-transmitted parasites that turn his otherworldly business trip into an agonizing fight for survival.From the godfather of bizarre fiction, Carlton Mellick III, author of Village of the Mermaids and Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland, comes an erotic and disturbing tale of sex on the weird side of the galaxy.

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Praise for Carlton Mellick III "Easily the craziest, weirdest, strangest, funniest, most obscene writer in America." -- GOTHIC MAGAZINE "Carlton is an acquired taste, but he hooks you like a drug." --HUNTER SHEA, author of Forest of Shadows "The most original novelist working today? The most outrageous?The most unpredictable? These aren't easy superlatives to make;however, Carlton Mellick may well be all of those things, behind a canonof books that all irreverently depart from the form and conceptsof traditional novels, and adventure the reader into a howling,dark fantasy land of the most bizarre, over-the-top, andmind-warping inventiveness." --EDWARD LEE, author of Header "Carlton Mellick III is a genius with an insanely beautiful imagination." --JOE AUGUSTYN, writer of Night of the Demons "Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles... and the kinkiest fans!" --CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of The Stupidest Angel "If you haven't read Mellick you're not nearly perverse enough for the twenty first century." --JACK KETCHUM, author of The Woman and The Girl Next Door "Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction'smost talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, sciencefictional tale." --CORY DOCTOROW, author of Little Brother "Mellick's career is impressive because, despite the fact that he puts outa few books a year, he has managed to bring something new to thetable every time... Every Mellick novel is packed with more wildlyoriginal concepts than you could find in the current top ten New York Times bestsellers put together." --VERBICIDE "Mellick's guerrilla incursions combine total geek boy fandom and love with genuine, unbridled outsider madness. As such, it borders on genius, in theway only true outsider art can." --FANGORIA "Bizarre, twisted, and emotionally raw--Carlton Mellick's fiction is the literary equivalent of putting your brain in a blender." --BRIAN KEENE, author of The Rising and Dead Sea "I'm a huuuuge Bizarro fan. This new strain of cheerfully transgressive weird fiction is to me the most vibrant, exciting, genre-mangling scene in all of strange literature today. And no one holds dominionover this blossoming underground phenomenon like the godfather ofBizarro, Carlton Mellick III. With the most impressive sideburns inimaginative lit since Isaac Asimov, and a brain that squirts outmore shamelessly playful originality in any given chapter than mostartists will accomplish in their entire lives, he's the poster boy. TheElvis. As well he should be." --JOHN SKIPP, co-author of The Bridge "It's not unusual to blow through a Mellick book in onesitting. They're fast-paced with an endless number of surprises, making it tough not to keep turning pages. When the end comes, I'm left withthat done-too-soon feeling that I always love experiencing." --RAZORCAKE "A wormhole of disturbing surrealism and absurd satire." --VICE MAGAZINE "Carlton Mellick III exemplifies the intelligence and wit that lurks between its lurid covers. In a genre where crude titles are an artin themselves, Mellick is a true artist." --THE GUARDIAN "His fiction blends bizarre scenarios mixed with horror, action,and even more bizarre actions to create fiction that toes the linebetween the absurd and the dark places of the mind... Shocking yetentertaining"--THE EXAMINER "Iimagine Mellick as a Willy Wonka-type character, someone with personalaccess to another world, a world of his own creation, but due to itsmind-bending energy, he's lost control of it, and it continues to thriveeven without him there to pull the strings. And I like the idea ofthat." --BOOKIE MONSTER "The imp of the perverse." --3AM MAGAZINE "Just as Pop had Andy Warhol and Dada Tristan Tzara, the Bizarro movement has its very own P. T. Barnum-type practitioner. He'sthe mutton-chopped author of such books as Electric Jesus Corpse and The Menstruating Mall, the illustrator, editor, and instructor of all things Bizarro, and his name is Carlton Mellick III." --DETAILS MAGAZINE "Discussing Bizarro literature without mentioning Mellick islike discussing weird-ass muttonchopped authors without mentioningMellick."--CRACKED.COM

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