The Nest

The action unfolds in a present-day setting, with references to modern institutions like MIT and a biotech corporation. The town’s routines—air travel, a diner, a library, and a lighthouse—ground the story in a recognizable late-20th to early-21st century backdrop.

North Port is a small island town whose everyday rhythms hinge on a library, a diner, and a lighthouse. The community is suddenly terrorized by a cockroach infestation that destabilizes local life and infrastructure. As the crisis intensifies, the cave and facilities linked to INTEC become focal points of the outbreak.

🧬 Genetic Engineering

The plot centers on a biotech experiment gone wrong, with INTEC designing cockroaches that mutate and threaten the town. Questions of ethics, secrecy, and corporate responsibility loom as Hubbard's past and the island's fate collide. The narrative uses the outbreak to explore how scientific ambition can outpace safeguards.

🪲 Insect Invasion

A relentless roach outbreak spreads, reproducing asexually and mutating to overcome poisons. Eggs hatch resistance, and human-cockroach hybrids emerge in the escalating conflict. The invasion reshapes how residents move through ordinary spaces—homes, library, diner—and tests their resilience.

🏝️ Island Crisis

The island's fate becomes a political and logistical crisis as evacuation options clash with containment measures. The lighthouse beam becomes a critical signal preventing a deadly spray, illustrating how civic decisions can alter a community's survival. The outbreak exposes the fragility of small-town life under corporate oversight.