The Green Fireballs

"The Green Fireballs" is a short story by author Jason Radak which is loosely connected to the Cthulhu Mythos. It was published in the Lammas Eve edition of Lovecraftiana by Rogue Planet Press in July 2020.
==Synopsis==
Told through two separate conversations, one between mall employees and the other involving agents from two shady government agencies, "The Green Fireballs" tells of how an ancient, dead-but-dreaming entity was discovered sleeping beneath the land which would one day become the town of Claremont, New Jersey. The being was left in place and experimented on, and eventually a shopping mall was allowed to spring up atop the putrefying corpse, with the agencies monitoring the strange effects it’s psychic emanations had on the shoppers and staff.
The story concludes with the being stirring in its sleep, and the first tendrils of its awakening form beginning to make their way into the outside world.
==Behind the Mythos==
When one of the characters, an undercover agent named Hansen Murdoch, makes his appearance, he refers to the entity beneath the mall as "Cthulhu's cousin".
==Trivia==
*The green fireballs of the title refers in part to the name of a fictional psychedelic rock band whose frontman was a man named G Large. This is a possible nod to Gerry Large - who writes as G. Large - an author who wrote the story "Prom Night, or Whateley Family Happiness", published in the same issue of Lovecraftiana as "The Green Fireballs".
Category:Jason Radak works
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