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    Kingdom of Frankenstein
    Kingdom of Frankenstein
    Kingdom of Frankenstein
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    Kingdom of Frankenstein

    By Edward Punales

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    Dr. Victor Frankenstein lives in world that won’t accept his genius.

    Shunned and reviled, he spends his days alone in his castle with his horrific creations.

    And now he wants to make himself a mate.

    See Frankenstein like you’ve never seen him before, in this surreal reworking of a classic tale.

    Word Count: 5,000

    This story can also be found in the short fiction collection, Worlds on Fire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdward Punales
    Release dateApr 23, 2016
    ISBN9781310063169
    Kingdom of Frankenstein
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    Edward Punales

    I’m a writer, poet, filmmaker, and lover of mythology, science fiction, art, and cheeseburgers.  I’ve published three short story collections, written and/or directed a handful of short films, regularly publish new work on my Medium page, and have spent way too much time on the internet watching old vine complications. I used to write under the pen name Edward Lange, but I switched to my real name in 2015. I live in South Florida.

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      Kingdom of Frankenstein - Edward Punales

      Kingdom of Frankenstein

      Edward Punales

      © 2016 Edward Punales / All Rights Reserved

      Smashwords Edition

      Cover: Detail from an Untitled piece by Zdzisław Beksiński (copyrights inherited by Muzeum Historyczne w Sanoku) It is licensed under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creative commons license. As such, the cover of this book is covered under the exact same license.

      This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or other unauthorized use of the material contained herein is prohibited without the express written permission of the copyright holder.

      All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to any persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

      My name is Victor Frankenstein. I’ve never tried to make anything beautiful. Not until today.

      I live in a house with a lab that sits on a hill which overlooks a town. It’s a quaint little town, with straw houses, cobblestone streets, oil lanterns, and people who hate me.

      They hate everything about me; what I make, what I believe, what I want to achieve. They leave me alone, letting me go about my business so long as it doesn’t interfere with theirs, and I do the same. Most days I stay on the grounds, toiling in my lab, reading arcane books of alchemy and life and death, and tending to my creations in the basement.

      I keep them in wrought iron cages. They sit there, with pale, mangy skin, black greasy hair, and blank eyes. They smell of death, and they are my children. They

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