originally published Shadows Over Innsmouth, 1994
The unnamed narrator (I need to find an acronym for this, since so many Lovecrafters use it) is a software guy who lost his wife during childbirth a few years back. He blames radiation from the VDU, which is an old-school term for a monitor (I had to look it up). Their living daughter is plain, or ugly, and deformed (she was born with gills). Of course, his wife was also descended from Innsmouth stock...
His daughter likes to play a game from a software company based in Innsmouth, that depicts a friendly Innsmouth full of friendly frog-people. The narrator also uses software from that company. He thinks there's some link between the software and birth defects. And now he wants to make it with his daughter.
Besides being painfully dumb, the incest angle is just plain distasteful. This is a bad story.
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