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Stan, the story's narrator, is a Germanic languages professor, specializing in Gothic, at the university in an unnamed town. He spends much of his down time at the local bar, Mandelbaum's. There has been a recent rash of pedestrians being struck and killed by automobiles in the area. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The story ends with the possibility that Stan may also be carrying the parasite.

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rdf:type	Short Story
rdfs:label	Something Going Around
rdfs:comment	Stan, the story's narrator, is a Germanic languages professor, specializing in Gothic, at the university in an unnamed town. He spends much of his down time at the local bar, Mandelbaum's. There has been a recent rash of pedestrians being struck and killed by automobiles in the area. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The story ends with the possibility that Stan may also be carrying the parasite.
dcterms:subject	Works Set in the United States Science Fiction Something Going Around Short Stories That Have Not Been Collected Short Stories First Published at Tor.Com Works Set in the 21st Century Works Set in the Present Horror Stories 2014 Works
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pub date	April, 2014
First Appearance	Tor.com
Genre	Science Fiction, Horror
ImageSize	150(xsd:integer)
Author	Harry Turtledove
Illustrator	Greg Ruth
Publisher	Tor.com
abstract	Stan, the story's narrator, is a Germanic languages professor, specializing in Gothic, at the university in an unnamed town. He spends much of his down time at the local bar, Mandelbaum's. There has been a recent rash of pedestrians being struck and killed by automobiles in the area. During an evening at Mandelbaum's, Stan meets parasitic ecologist Indira Patel. The two hit it off discussing their respective fields. During their conversation, Stan wonders if there could be a parasite that could live in people, but requires another host for sexual reproduction, and whether such a parasite could alter human behavior to allow for the required change in host. Indira allows that, unlike some other animals, human behavior is difficult to influence, but would not say if it was impossible. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. After a brief relationship, Indira is killed when she inexplicably steps into the path of a car. Stan realizes that Indira and the others hit by cars were hosts to some sort of parasite, and that their careless actions were actually the parasite trying to escape the humans (by forcing their suicides) and find a host suitable for reproduction. The story ends with the possibility that Stan may also be carrying the parasite.

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