(The first novella of The GuT Circus Opening Acts) by JC Young

   Melvin Brazel Conaway is a paranormal enthusiast who has been having numerous terrifying encounters with abnormalities stalking him.   On his trail are the dreadful ball-beings known as the Haxe who leave him brutally disfigured and dying from a rapid flesh-eating illness while evading the fierce presence of the Fanatic, a bio-mechanical beast who is doing its damndest in its haunt of him to twist his mind into the GuT Madness with psychedelic television hypnosis, and a pursuing monstrous automobile who lurks likes a demonic ghost in and out of existence.  What part could possibly be left of Melvin by the time these freaks from the beyond have had their way with him?