Author Sue Alcon O'Connor juxtaposes quotidian tasks with an almost primal fear of what lurks in darkness downstairs.

Chloe Fourreau, a Ph.D. student in Japan, went hunting for an elusive and overlooked marine worm, which lives in corals off the country's Pacific coast. She found much more than she was looking for.

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