When a married couple goes to Mars, they return with a trinket that quickly turns into a giant anemone that takes over their lives. This imaginative novel follows Mercer and Dinah as they battle wits with their interstellar invader. It's not as easy as you may think, there are rockets to manage, a Safeway to forage, a little glade in all the cement that's their only escape. Will this story win acclaim? Can you watch it resolve on a TV screen? When they are no longer held in check, when the lights go on and the shadows are gone, where will they find themselves? What would you do? Maybe you know someone, or maybe you are that someone, experiencing ...The Freeloader.