Nutmeat

"Nutmeat" is a short Lovecraftian story by American author and university professor Martin Hill Ortiz.
== Synopsis ==
A parasitologist investigating an alleged infestation in rural California realises too late that whatever is infecting the local walnut crop has already made the jump to more mobile lifeforms…
== Characters ==
* Doctor Hiram Lerner, a plant parasitologist working out of California's Davis University.
* Baskin, a country bumpkin who has become infected by some kind of intelligent body-snatching organism.
== Publication History ==
"Nutmeat" was published in the Kat Rocha-edited Lovecraft-inspired anthology Whispers from the Abyss in 2013.
Category:Martin Hill Ortiz works
Category:Mythos-Inspired Works