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    Specimen 313: A Short Story
    Specimen 313: A Short Story
    Specimen 313: A Short Story
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    Specimen 313: A Short Story

    By Jeff Strand

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    A free short story taken straight from the pages of THE MONSTER'S CORNER, an all original anthology from some of today's hottest supernatural writers, featuring stories from the monster's point of view.

    SPECIMEN 313 is the story of a meat-eating plant named Max, surviving in the greenhouse with his mad doctor keeper when he gets a new female neighbor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 17, 2011
    ISBN9781429962421
    Specimen 313: A Short Story
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    Jeff Strand

    Jeff Strand is the four-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of such novels as PRESSURE, DWELLER, MY PRETTIES, A BAD DAY FOR VOODOO, CLOWNS VS. SPIDERS, AUTUMN BLEEDS INTO WINTER, and a bunch more. Several of his books are in development as motion pictures. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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    • 5/5
      This was so sweet! Despite the circumstance that the main character is a man-eating plant, Specimen 313 is a heartrending tale about loving friendship that put a smile on my face.

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    • 3/5
      A short free novel that would be loved by all those who will watch Tusk!

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    • 3/5
      Nasty plants with heart and soul grown and cultivated by a mad doctor. (view spoiler) Nice reading a short story written from the monster's point of view. All the stories in The Monster's Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes are written from the monster's point of view and Amazon is running a special where some are available to read for free. Probably a limited time deal, so if you're interested in checking them out, may want to jump.Specimen 313 was very predictable but the jubilant writing style carried me through. I'm going to check out some of Strand's longer work.

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    Specimen 313 - Jeff Strand

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    Specimen 313

    by Jeff Strand

    MAX, WHOSE REAL NAME WAS SPECIMEN 278, tried to be happy as he digested the arm. It had been a delicious meal for sure (he didn’t get to eat humans very often, so it was always a special treat), but he felt somehow unsatisfied. Not hungry, necessarily, just sort of… unfulfilled.

    He shifted in his dirt a bit. Almost watering time. Maybe that was the problem—his soil was too dry, and it was keeping him from enjoying his dinner.

    Could be.

    Probably not.

    He’d actually felt this way for the past couple of days. Kind of bored. Kind of sad. There were plenty of things going on in the greenhouse laboratory for him to watch, including a minor rampage by Specimen 201 that ended with the unfortunate plant being clipped to shreds with a pair of garden shears, but none of them captured his interest the way they had in the past.

    He wished he had a means to communicate with humans. It would be nice

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