The Roaches Have No King    by Daniel Evan Weiss
Price: $7.99 USD. 74230 words. Agented by Joy Harris on February 1, 2012. .
When Ira Fishblatt's girlfriend, Ruth Grubstein, moves into his apartment, he has his kitchen renovated to make her feel at home. She is tickled pink, but hundreds of other houseguests aren't - the cockroaches who'd been living well, before they were boarded in and starved out.