Fetch Monkey
Science Fiction Short StoryUpon seeing there was a magazine literally called Mad Scientist Journal, the mission of getting a story there became clear. The Canadian magazine took different works, among those short stories and, much more interesting to me, reports of mad science (fiction, too, of course). Those had a clear format of being written by a fictitious author and merely related by the real-life writer. Now that was interesting!
And so I wrote down my story of animal experimentation and how it all went very, very wrong. At its core, it's about a sort-of successful attempt to engineer rats into remote-controlled workers using brain implants. There is an underlying dread in here to generate unease until the eventual reveal. A reveal I will, naturally, not spoil here.
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Fetch Monkey was very much custom-made for this magazine, and that resulted in a quick acceptance I am very happy about.
Sadly, Mad Scientist Journal has ceased publication in 2019. I guess it was just too niche, as wonderful as its concept was.
November 2018
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Mad Scientist Journal Autumn 2018
