Roach Hotel

In Cam Trotter's garage, little black and brown creatures scatter every time the light is turned on. It is like an explosion radiating from the center of the cement floor that ripples into every dark, dank nook. There the six-footed disease carriers wait. Cam has wondered for a long time why they are there. He's never seen them inside the house, but there they are in the garage every time he turns on the light. There is no food available other than the odd pizza box, but even that seldom happens anymore in his attempt to rid himself of the vermin. Garbage is double-bagged and put outside whenever possible. He'd prefer raccoons to the roaches. But they come back. Even after poison traps, sticky pads, and fumigation. Over time, Cam begins to believe that super roaches have commandeered his garage, mutant insects with immunity to poison and hunger.