Nganga

"When a lonely thirtysomething’s neglected aquarium becomes a sentient “nganga” slime demanding sustenance, he must confront his shameful secret and, with the brash woman who loves him, perform a bizarre ritual of intimacy to save himself or lose his life and love to living chaos."

Nganga is a darkly comic supernatural romance about Peter, a neurotic thirty-something whose neglected apartment aquarium, an ancestral “nganga” of chaotic, life-draining slime, manifests into a hungry, childlike slime creature that upends his attempts at intimacy. When his new flame Marisol, a blunt and pragmatic Cuban-descended barista, recognizes the curse, the pair must confront secrets, rituals, and their own awkward desires as they negotiate caring for and containing a creature born of their shame and yearning. Playful, gross, and tender, Nganga blends body-horror surrealism with rom-com awkwardness to ask what we’ll sacrifice for love and who (or what) we become when we finally stop hiding.