Wherever He May Swarm
Title: Wherever He May Swarm
Form: Novel ~ 400 pages
Genre: Horror x Thriller x Science Fiction
Target Audience: Adults / fans of Stephen King, Clive Barker, Paul Verhoeven, David Cronenberg
Status: Drafted > Revised > Self-Publishing
🎨Cover art: Dominic Forbes
Premise: A man down on his luck gains the ability to control insects. The FBI investigates. A young girl starts to have apocalyptic dreams. Chaos ensues…Main Characters:
Local man Nidus Nash🦋 is an ex-con and ex-trucker, displaced by AI and in despair at a personal tragedy. One day, fate chooses him. Nidus realizes that he can control the will of insects en masse. He decides to take a road trip across America, gathering confrontations and atrocities and some new friends along the way.Special Agent Evelyn Waters🛡️is a paranormal expert and the FBI’s best bet for the investigation into the “Bugman” Nidus Nash. Her and a handpicked team try to get a read on Nidus’ powers and box him in for capture. However, a mysterious entity within the U.S. government restricts the investigation and alters the strategic board with secret agents of their own. Evelyn must use every tactic available to understand Nidus and figure out what he truly wants before things escalate out of anyone’s control.Online blogger Anita Ramirez🍄 is thirteen years old and starting out her summer vacation. She lives in Lake Placid, New York and her parents love her very much. Mom is on book tour and dad is baking cookies; Anita’s good grades have earned her a summer of leisure. Mom & dad appreciate her help most in the garden, where she wields an especially green thumb. // Anita secretly conspires nightly with the realm of fungi, her very soul somehow psychically connected to America’s mushroom networks. Soon, Anita starts to detect the rise of Nidus’ swarms in the southwest — and suffers from apocalyptic dreams of a world returned to nature.WHEREVER HE MAY SWARM is a horror x action x comedy/thriller dealing with the prospect of the Holocene Extinction touching down on insects < or > humanity next. Follow Nidus Nash on a road trip across an alternate future America, where the insects are striking back against the empire.
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