/lit/ - Literature

>>17666926
A body horror in which a man believes he is inside the wrong body and is in fact a rat. He begins adopting the rat lifestyle walking on all fours, digging in dumpsters, rolling around in his own piss and shit, wearing a fake tail and ears, and becoming extremely obese by stealing all of his girlfriends food. He makes his gf, friends, and family only refer to as being a rat. Anyone that appears disgusted by this lifestyle is first shown as being ratophobic in the media, and then shunned by mainstream society. The protagonist undergoes a dangerous surgery wherein he has real rat fur grafted onto his skin, he acquires whiskers from his ass hair being grafted onto his cheeks, has his ears clipped to look like a rat, and acquires a tale from various skin and bones from cadavers being grafted and attached to his backside. The novel ends with the protagonist happily remarking that everyone in society is more and more is transforming into a rat and all of those who try to resist are cast out of mainstream society and portrayed as villains, declaring that love and acceptance will win out.