La Incubación

For more than ten thousand years they have waited patiently. There had been no record of their presence until a black mass devoured an American tourist whole in the deep forest of Peru. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in an earthquake lab in India, confounding the scientists there. During the same week, the Chinese government "accidentally" drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country. As these incidents begin to sweep the globe, a mysterious package from South America arrives at a Washington, D.C. laboratory. Something wants out. The world is on the brink of an apocalyptic disaster. An ancient species, long dormant, is now very much awake.

Ezekiel Boone is an author and lives in New York.