Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24490614-20150625035334

What follows is a story stemming from watching a documentary on sea life with my youngest child. It is unreviewed and an initital draft. Our AC has been broke down for a month so please forgive any errors, I have poured through it multiple times, I am very exhausted today. Any and all help is very appreciated, Thank you for reading/reviewing!

The Rhizo       I'm not sure when exactly it happened aside from the day, but I know that there is something different about me now. I feel less manly, my doctor says it's just low T but inside I know something just isn't right. It makes me wonder if all this crap about "civil rights" has anything to do with it. Hundreds of guys lately have come out proclaiming that they are female and that they can't wait to be mothers. My doctor is wrong, this can't just be a low T situation, I'm starting to feel all maternal. I literally feel about the same way my wife spoke of what she felt when she was bearing our child. I wonder if I'm just sick, maybe I've just been working too hard or I've come down with some kind of bug. More guys came forward in today's news, what in the literal hell is wrong with this country when a guy wants to lop off his God-given genitals and become a damned female. Don't get me wrong, I love my wife, but that is because I am her husband, if I weren't a man, I'd be loving a husband instead. A new commercial aired today, some bull about this new facility specifically for "mating". I don't know what is going on in this country anymore. That was strange, I've never randomly taken a nap before. When I woke up something felt even more strange. Almost like I'm not alone. Earlier this morning I felt nauseous. I wish my doctor would get back to me already witht the test results, I'm so worried I swear I can literally feel something crawling beneath my skin. Some marine biologist came out today, about how he never knew how wonderful his life could be until he became a woman and became a mother. I had no idea that they could allow a man to be able to carry a child. It might not be such a bad idea, maybe I could use my wife's frozen eggs and they could allow me to carry one last it of her back into this world. God, I miss her. Not a day goes by that I don't wish I could have her and our baby girl back. Maybe tomorrow I'll go to talk to some of these folks. I'm going to be a mother, I can't believe that they were able to do it. They said I was already near the metamorphosis so they were able to fertilize me right away. What luck! Why was I so against this in the beginning? Someone help me! There is something inside of me, controlling me, I have no idea how it took hold of me, but I'm no longer a man. Where my genitals once were a new growth has burst out and it from what I can tell there are eggs growing inside. Oh, God what has happened to me? There must be someone that knows something. Gyah! I feel it in my brain pulling me away. God, someone help me.... In the years following the Rhizo disaster this audio log diary was found and tells a grim tale of what almost destroyed our world. A team searching for a cure made it out of the CDC home office with the V-log of one of the lead researchers on the Rhizo's ancestral roots; although most unfortunately none of them were able to find a cure. This transcript of the lead researchers v-log gives us insight to what we're facing and hopefully one day, a cure. This may be the last entry in my V-log. Everyone was up in arms defending civil rights, or at least they thought they were. Even though I was only a marine biologist, I knew that our research on the Rhizocephalan had gone to the wrong people. You see I was part of a research team studying the creatures of the twilight zone and of the midnight zone. These regions of the sea are home to many interesting creatures, but most importantly they are home to the what used to be the world's most horrifyingly creatures in known existance. To tell the truth, that humble creature is nothiing compared to the one that replaced it. There is no escaping what we have done, there is only surviving it at this point, once infected the average person has about four to six weeks before they turn. The most ironic part of it all is that the general public only thought that sex change was on the rise. If only they had known, they would have fought harder, they would have been terrified, in their last moments they probably were. My team and I were studying the Rhizocephalan Barnacle, a species of barnacle that wander the ocean's depths in search of a crustacean to latch onto. Once they latch onto their "prey", if you will, they use their stylet much like a hypodermic syringe and pierce the hard exoskeleton of the crustacean, once through they then inject their internal cellular mass into their new host. From then it's only a matter of time. Time, time, time..... it won't be long now, and I will finally be a mother. Won't it be such a beautiful moment? I can hardly wait, while the new life grows silently within me. We don't know how they turned the Rhizocephalan into a human parasite but they did, it may have been to control the minds of the masses, or to simply control the minds of enemies to the nation. The worst part isn't even in being infected, or when the host's genitals burst revealing the Homocephalan's gonads, the worst is when the host spawns the eggs into the air like a cloud of spores. They are always smiling yet in their eyes you can almost make out the last vestiges of the original person screaming in terror. I can't wait to tell my family! I'm going to be a mother! I have a lovely mass of eggs freshly fertilized and soon, soon I will be releasing them. It will be such a happy moment! I can't wait to see them flying off on their trip to find a new home. Oh, they've gotten dirty. How shameful of me. I simply must go clean them.

(In case something changes dramatically in the posting as my "preview" isn't working here is a link to my pastebin page containing "The Rhizo" : http://pastebin.com/8fEPhV5i# ) 