I Read Stories: Houseguests by Kaj Tanaka
A couple bring home an egg, keep it warm in their bed and it hatches. Initially it is a pair of frogs, then it becomes other things, stranger, weirder, all-consuming. They drift away from family and church friends.
There’s possibly a metaphor at work here.
Read This: For a fun stare into the Eternal Darkness
Don’t Read This: If you don’t want your allegories to go off the rails and become genuinely strange at the end.