The Ferro-Erotic Roaches of Kiki

Sharpen your beaks, prickle your barbs, color your ears. My Kiki, my brothers, we must guard our broods...

The Kiki dwell contentedly in their hive until the odd roundy beasts plummet to the surface.
Chantelle and James, marooned on an alien world of banded stone and gaping chasms, take refuge in the warrens of the roach-like denizens of the planet. They find a peaceful, if uneasy, co-existence.
Until the baby arrives.
And they call again for help.
And Chantelle must choose: her baby or her life...

Published with bonus story "Season of Black."

Professionally published writer Alistair Ainscott writes tales of science gone haywire, men gone mad, oddballs gone even odder, twin toddlers run amok, cats doing the things that cats are given to do, and other nefarious goings-on of the mysterious and the unknown.
His fiction has appeared in the professional-paying Penumbra magazine of speculative fiction from Musa Publishing, and he has also studied short fiction with Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith.

* For more information about his work, visit alistairainscott dot wordpress dot com.
If you liked this book, you might also like these other stories by Alistair Ainscott:
* The Flies Dropped Dead : A Short Novel
* Five Strange Obsessions: A Five Story Collection
* Captain Disaster and the Twin Terrors of Unholy Matrimony
* Tailor Maidens
* Occupy Stinking America