The Worm Within

By Miss Cellania in Health on Apr 28, 2009 at 8:56 am

This 2004 short story by Vincent Eaton tells of his experience with a tapeworm. This is not for hypochondriacs or those disturbed by bathroom scenes. Guaranteed to make you cook your meat just a little longer.

I headed directly to the pharmacist, purchased the pill, took it home, created an altar, placed it there and worshipped it for forty-five minutes as the answer to all my dreams and prayers. “Oh mighty pill, death to the demon residing within…”

Next morning I popped out of bed, got myself a glass of water, removed the pill from its altar cushion, placed it on my tongue, closed my eyes, and swallowed, declaring, “Take that, monster of the deep! You neverending strand of unspooling spaghetti!” I smacked my lips and thought that was that.

It wasn’t.

The story concludes with an invitation to share your stories of parasites. There are dozens of pages of contributions. Link -via reddit

(image credit: Chris Bishop)


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  1. danidarkheart
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 9:33 am

    Haha, wow. That was quite and interesting and entertaining read.

  2. madcap
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 9:42 am

    Years back where I worked, a black farmer who’d undergone upper and lower GI barium studies, had his doctor’s head scratching over what to do for him since the studies came back normal. The farmer was sent home after 2 days in the hospital. Well…24 hrs. later… the farmer shows up in the lab carrying a huge mason jar with one VErrryyy long roundworm (ascaris species). The doc hadn’t bothered to test for parasites while his patient was an inhouse. Poor farmer damned near turned white when he saw it in the toilet. Needless to say, he let his M.D. “have” it the next day and got his prescription to clear out any more critters that hadn’t been killed by the barium.

  3. nickolas_warner
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 10:53 am

    That was great and disgusting.

  5. atanguay
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 11:27 am

    Wow yeah, that was insanely disgusting but interesting. I’ve wondered about the logistics of this situation and now I know.

    Great writing and illustrations too!

  6. DaveL
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Conclusive proof that the key to good story telling is embellishment.

  7. Gadget Sleuth
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    Some of these sound a little made up or “enhanced” over what really happened.

  9. Drea
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    Oooh, how could one forget a story like this? This was featured on the WONDERFUL Drabblecast podcast back in 2008. If you can sit through it without squirming, you’re a stronger person than I!

    http://web.me.com/normsherman/Site/MP3_Feed/Entries/2008/6/6_Drabbleca st_25-_The_Worm_Within_by_Vincent_Eaton.html

  10. Dean
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Those illustrations were great!

  11. Ali S.
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    X_X I have never been so ill reading something. Now I’m hesitant about trying foods that aren’t cooked until it’s burnt.

  12. Starving Artist
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    That image with the toilet and the worm captures my fear of a snake attacking me from the toilet while I’m sitting on it.

  13. kyuubiness
    Apr 28th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    Auugh, that was gross but hilarious XD

  15. Allen T Garvin
    Apr 29th, 2009 at 10:17 am

    “filet americain”! I know someone else who fell for that deceptive menu item, while in Belgium!

  16. Alecto
    Apr 29th, 2009 at 11:51 am

    No more medium rare for me. It’s medium or medium well done from now on. I’m scared now.

  17. Thomas
    Apr 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    I had a rare steak just this morning. It was delicious. No regrets.


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