After being bitten by a brown recluse spider, our hero, Jim “Stinky Feet” Stinkybottom, discovers that the spider’s venom had the unique quality of turning him into a stinky creature. As a result, he gets his foot cut off, finds himself in the middle of a battle between two tribes of spiders, the spiders of the day and the spiders of the night, and makes the acquaintance of a creepy old witch named Madame Lola.
Does Jim become her familiar, does she know why spiders are turning people into stinky creatures, have Madame Lola and Jim taken any sides in the spider battle, are they at war? How did Jim lose his foot? I am now invested in this premise I need to know what happens next.
In the story “Jim and the Spider,” Jim loses his foot on page 18.
Here’s a preview of that story:






