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Francis\u00a0is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing…<\/p>\nFrancis\u00a0is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing…<\/p>\n
First publication:<\/strong> The 3rd Alternative #37 Spring The books, magazines and\/or collections in which these titles are also published: The book\/story is published with these cover(s): Information about edition(s): The story starts as follows: Other information: Nomination(s):<\/strong> Movie: Francis\u00a0is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing… First publication: The 3rd Alternative #37 Spring Date:\u00a02004 Author(s):\u00a0Joe Hill Nomination(s):\u00a0No Movie:\u00a0No The books, magazines and\/or collections in which these titles are also published: \u00b7 20th Century Ghosts The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/1508"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDate:<\/strong>\u00a02004
\nAuthor(s):<\/strong>\u00a0Joe Hill
\nNomination(s):<\/strong>\u00a0No
\nMovie:<\/strong>\u00a0No<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>\u00b7 20th Century Ghosts<\/p>\n
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\n2004<\/td>\nAll covers
\n20th Century Ghosts<\/a>
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\n<\/strong>Francis Kay woke from dreams that were not uneasy, but exultant, and found himself an insect. He was not surprised, had thought this might happen. Or not thought: hoped, fantasised, and if not for this precise thing, then something like it. He had believed for a while he would learn to control cockroaches by telepathy, that he would master a glistening brown-backed horde of them, and send them clattering to battle for him. Or like in that movie with Vincent Price, he would only be partly transformed, his head become the head of a fly, sprouting obscene black hairs; his bulging, faceted eyes reflecting a thousand screaming faces.<\/p>\n
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