Irregular Creatures

Irregular Creatures

Contained within are nine stories featuring bizarre beasties, mythological mutants, and overall â€œirregular creaturesâ€ â€“ including flying cats, mermaids, Bigfoot, giant chickens, and mystic hobo hermaphrodites.

Features 45,000 words of horror, fantasy, science-fiction and humor.

The collection features the following nine tales:

DOG-MAN AND CAT-BIRD (A FLYING CAT STORY)

Joeâ€™s got job woes and family problems, and itâ€™s made all the more complicated by a cat who dies on his porch one night â€“ or, so Joe believes. The cat is not only dead, but it appears to be some kind of improbable mutant: a cat with wings. The cat initially complicates Joeâ€™s life as he hides it from his family, but he soon learns that more may be at stake than he realized. Little does he know, a battle for good and evil, between Heaven and Hell, is about to be fought in his garage.

A RADIOACTIVE MONKEY

That bartender you really like, well, she just whipped up a potent cocktail called a â€œRadioactive Monkey.â€ Would you drink it? (Hint: you shouldnâ€™t.) Jonny Stoops, however, decided to take the plunge. (Hint: it doesn't end well.)

PRODUCT PLACEMENT

Imagine one morning you wake up and you discover that the world is now home to products you donâ€™t recognize but everyone else does. Flix candy bars? Jack Kenny whiskey? Burrito Hut? Donnieâ€™s never heard of these brands, but those around him say such products are beloved and have been here for years. Donnieâ€™s quest to discover the truth â€“ and prove heâ€™s not nuts â€“ reveals a marketing and advertising scheme not of this dimension.

THIS GUY

"Every day, I catch him before he makes it to the China Skillet... I drag him into the alleyway, and I beat him with a tire iron. Sometimes, I stab him with a kitchen knife. I do this every day. I think it's starting to affect me." Every day is the same for the protagonist: get up, drive to work, and on the way there, beat some zombie to death. Next day? Zombieâ€™s back. It would take a toll on oneâ€™s sanity, wouldnâ€™t it?

MISTER MHUâ€™S PUSSY SHOW

Nolan seeks untold pleasures, but never finds them: not until now, when he becomes swiftly obsessed with Tasanee, a Bangkok dancer at a hole-in-the-wall club. He is driven to pursue her at any cost, but what he finds at the end of his obsession is not pleasure, but pain.

LETHE AND MNEMOSYNE

Old age wreaks havoc on the body and mind, and in this flash fiction that has been never more apparent than when a senile old manâ€™s children exhort him to remember the means by which he controlled the giant chicken wreaking havoc back home.

THE AUCTION

Benjaminâ€™s father shows his son the secret behind his job: he is a buyer and seller of very forbidden things, magical things, objects of a fantastical purview. He takes his son to â€œThe Auction,â€ a place where anything can be bought and sold: mythological creatures, insane machines, haunted and horrific artifacts. Benjamin is lead astray by a religious man with pious words but sinister intent. When Benjamin encounters a sickly mermaid on the auction block, can the boy step in and avert disaster?

BEWARE OF OWNER

A short story of how father teaches son: Dad teaches the boy that you donâ€™t need to beware of a dog, but you damn well better beware of owner.

DO-OVERS AND TAKE-BACKS

Taye and Beau are two characters from two different worlds: the first a boy in the city projects, the second a rich man with a hollow life and an estranged family. But a bizarre figure steps in as catalyst â€“ an inhuman â€œRag-Manâ€ appears and draws connections between the two characters that could not have existed before.
Country USA
Manufacturer Terribleminds
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-01-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Terribleminds
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-01-06
Format	Kindle eBook

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