The Little Green God of Agony
Vermont billionaire Andrew Newsome, the world's sixth richest man, has been bedridden with chronic pain since a plane crash two years prior.Rideout offers to expel the demon god–a process that will place his life at risk–in return for a fee of $750,000 (equivalent to $1,016,000 in 2023), which he intends to use to rebuild his church in Titusville, Arkansas, which has burned down.Newsome initially fires her, but Rideout persuades him to allow her to watch the expulsion of the demon god, suggesting that Kat has become complacent to the suffering of her patients due to never having experienced severe pain herself.Rideout begins the expulsion, and a small, spikey, "bladderlike" green creature (which Kat likens to a Koosh ball) is expelled from Newsome, whose pain immediately ends.[7] In August 2020, it was announced that Lionsgate was developing a film adaptation of "The Little Green God of Agony", with the script being written by Ian B. Goldberg and Richard Naing.
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