The Crawlers: When Humanity Gives Birth to the Unthinkable

They were born near the radiation lab-soft, crawling, half-human things that no one wanted to claim as children. At first there were only a few, then dozens, then enough that cars began running over them on lonely highways and farmers started moving away in fear. Ernest Gretry is sent from Washington to quietly “take care of the problem,” but when he sees the creatures up close-building, learning, forming a colony-he realizes the real threat isn't simply that they exist, but how fast they a...