"Cat Scratch Fever":

Mia’s new girlfriend Alice, is plagued by an intense feminine itch, a burn...then erupting boils. Alice insists she’ll be fine. The next day she’s not returning Mia’s phone calls, she doesn’t answer the door. Mia finds her in the bathtub and she can’t even take in the ghastly sight. Alice’s limp corpse, the blood, the hack job, the steak knife...

Mia doesn’t know what happened. Then she feels an itch...A deep itch that no medication or finger or sex can scratch...Suddenly that shiny pair of scissors has a whole new use.

"Worm Boy": 

Corbin sold his body through ads placed on the internet. Old rich women welcomed him into their homes for an evening of intimacy. They adored young, unkempt men. He’d spent five years roaming from city to city taking jobs, sleeping with women, waiting for his worms, maggots, insects to hatch inside them, and within hours they were nothing but gaping shells for the curse to devour. Corbin would pocket their valuables and be on his way.

"Rolling the Sun":

Man meets exotic woman. Woman defecates into his mouth. The next day his food and drink turn to...scat. But there’s something else...something picking and festering deep inside the coils of his guts...he can’t eat, can’t drink, can’t explain away what is happening to him...he vomits up a thick worm. No, that couldn't have come from inside him...

"Saddle Nose (A Night with Venus, a Lifetime with Mercury)":

After a year and half of marriage Zillah spends her day alone in the once great hall of her lord husband. Her family cut off contact fearing Zillah had cursed them with the pox. The village felt Zillah was as mad as her husband. And maybe she was. Instead of choosing to watch her husband die before her, she chooses to die with him.

In an opium haze she infects herself with his affliction and the two live the last of their days in a mad love dream of laudanum, opium, mercury, sex, and disease.