Fluke

"Where life can happen, it will."

In this novella, horror author C. Dennis Moore (the Angel Hill series, the Monsters of Green Lake, and the Holiday Horrors) tells a very different kind of Frankenstein story.

Stan Wasco is a seeker. He spent nearly five decades seeking truth in science before giving it up to pursue bigger goals. But since then, he's not done much with his time. Then one day he finds something on the side of the road, something that shouldn't exist, but it's staring him in the face and asking for bananas.

After fifty years, he's finally found his one big thing, and he's eager to find out as much as he can about this fluke of nature that has no right being here.

There's just one problem: it's that time of year when his older brother comes into town for a week of fishing and bonding and Jim's a bit of a bully when he doesn't get his way.

Stan has to find a way to placate the unreasonable while trying to understand the unexplainable. If he can make it through this week, he's got the discovery of the century and a possibility to change the scientific principles governing life on earth.

Originally intended as a 100-page graphic novel, FLUKE has been expanded and adapted to prose, with the original comic book script included afterward.