The Night the Beetles Came

This summer, cookie‑cutter lawns and pastel station wagons become battlefields when mutated beetles, swollen by fallout from a top‑secret rocket test and fed on backyard DDT, march down Maple Avenue. Teenagers with transistor radios, a harried housewife clutching a cocktail napkin, and a disgraced entomologist must unite in a panic‑stricken suburb to stop the hive before the drive‑ins go dark. Equal parts Cold War paranoia and Saturday‑matinee thrills—a pulpy scream of civic pride, cracked windows, and wingbeats the size of Buick hubcaps.