Leech Girl Lives

Rick Claypool is the author of the novel Leech Girl Lives (Spaceboy Books, 2017) and numerous short stories. By day he works for a nonprofit organization researching corporate crime. He spent most of his life in Western Pennsylvania and now lives in Rhode Island, where he goes looking in the woods for fungi as frequently as he can.

"I used to live in the future. Giant leeches ate my arms and then replaced them. Under the circumstances, this was actually a good thing. Anyway now I'm here and I'm looking for someone else from the future."Inspector Margo Chicago is the smartest, surliest art safety inspector in the Bublinaplex, and things aren't going her way. The guy she thinks she's in love with has been banished. Her boss has been poisoned. Her cyborg has a limp.Oh, and her arms have been devoured and replaced by a pair of enormous leeches.As if that isn't enough, it's now up to Margo to save the Bublinaplex from art terrorists whose newest installation could drive humanity to extinction.But things in the Bublinaplex are not as they seem. And when Margo uncovers the city's murderous secrets, she must face a choice: Should she save the Bublinaplex? Or should she join the revolution dedicated to destroying it?