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    Serious Monkey Business
    Serious Monkey Business
    Serious Monkey Business
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    Serious Monkey Business

    By Daniel R. Robichaud

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    At the heart of creation stands Yggdrasil, the All Tree. It is protected by a race of ape men and women, the Simians who are charged with defending the tree from all foes. The Simians have created a prison for holding the villains who use the mystic archways to gain access to the tree and its surrounding city, a supposedly impregnable prison. When the most ruthless maniac escapes the prison and holds the All Tree hostage, only one Simian can stand against him: the chimpanzee scientist-sorcerer Dr. Gantu.

    However, The Locality has spies everywhere and has initiated a plan to drain the worlds of the multiverse to fuel his conquests. Can Dr. Gantu discover the maniac's plans and stop them before all hell breaks loose?

    "Serious Monkey Business" is a 14000+ word novella of the unexpected where the fate of the universe falls upon the shoulders on the most unlikely hero in fantasy fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwice Told Tales II
    Release dateJul 29, 2018
    ISBN9780463711828
    Serious Monkey Business
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    Daniel R. Robichaud

    Daniel R. Robichaud has lived in southeastern Michigan, central Massachusetts and southern Texas. He is a Rhysling Award nominated poet and the author of over one hundred stories, articles and poems, which have appeared in such markets as Shroud Magazine, Rogue Worlds, Goblin Fruit, Rage of the Behemoth, Green Prints, and WritersWeekly. Daniel holds degrees in both Physics and English, and his career path has reflected these passions. In addition to his numerous writing opportunities, he has been an Igor For Hire (aka a freelance research engineer), a substitute teacher, an automation engineer, and a neurophysiology lab manager. Daniel enjoys entertaining people with his words and stories. If you enjoy a good read, why not try one of his works? You might just love them.

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      Serious Monkey Business - Daniel R. Robichaud

      Serious Monkey Business

      A Multiversal Story of the Monkey Doctor

      By: Daniel R. Robichaud

      Dedication

      For Trista,

      who was there when I first found the Monkey Doctor

      and Eleanor,

      who came later.

      Serious Monkey Business

      Part I

      At the center of all things waited the great tree Yggdrasil. The Classical Norse myths had that much right. However, what they failed to realize was that the All-Father god Odin was neither crucified nor impaled on the tree, though it might have looked that way at first brush. Instead, an ancient sky ship had come off course during its aeons old voyage and fell into the singularity surrounding the All-Tree. That ship came apart, its crew scattered along the great tree's bark and its mast smashed into the tree proper. There it had come to rest, effectively driven into Yggdrasil itself like an awkward nail, and there it remained to this day. The All-Tree's wood had grown over and consumed the sky ship's edges, leaving a bulging protrusion. A few errant knotholes deepened and birds came to live in those holes. Where they came from no one can say . . . The wood warped and finally petrified, and over the millennia it recalled to any viewer's mind a face. If the viewer was human, as the drugged out Norse myth-manufacturers were, then the face would appear as human. If the viewer was instead one of the descendants of those early sky ship sailors who had arrived at Yggdrasil with only the clothes on their backs and a yearning for survival burning in their guts, then it would look different. It would look . . .

      Simian.

      #

      Coming out of focus on an experiment was a lot like coming up from a deep sleep. There was a period of adjustment as the sensory inputs from the world rushed into the eyes, ears, nose and mouth. This moment of uncertainty crippled Dr. Gantu when he realized someone had come to his laboratory's door and shoved it open.

      This was one of the Silver Back messengers, powerful apes whose peaceful natures and high degrees of social awareness made them the best debaters, the finest politicians, and the most socially conscious leaders in all Yggdrasil-yur. As a messenger, this fellow was still young. Perhaps in his early teens. The blue and gold sash declared him to be one of Zumba's mentees, which said he had a lot of brains as well as heart. He was gasping for breath, however. Eyes rolling with horror.

      Doctor Gantu! the young Silver Back shouted. The Silver Back's roar was impressive, and Doctor Gantu clapped his hands over his ears to keep some semblance of hearing. You're needed. He's killing people!

      The Chimpanzee scientist, Dr. Gantu, flipped up the goggles protecting his eyes from the fine laser work he had been performing. When he spoke, his tone was quiet and therefore calming. However, the words themselves were charged by the Silver Back's panic. Who is killing whom, young one?

      There was a breach in the fortieth level of Internment Ward!

      The high security prison was breached? The worst offenders from across the cosmos were held there. If not directly then through the soul crystals the peculiar science-sorcery by which a being's essence could be removed and locked down.

      Yes! the Silver Back leaned one mighty hand against the doorframe, his chest heaving with exertion. The madman is loose. He slew the Orangutan Scarlet Sash Guard!

      Dr. Gantu expressed his grim disgust by expelling a sudden flush of air from his cheeks. The days of water spitting and feces flinging youth might be long past for the good Doctor, but the reflex remained. Who is doing this?

      It is The Locality! the Silver Back said.

      This name flooded Dr. Gantu's head and chest with terrified loathing. The Locality? The greatest sower of chaos and death the Multiverse had ever seen? How had he escaped from the finest prison ever designed? Dr. Gantu shuddered at this knowledge. It was truly a dark day for the All Tree, the city Yggdrasil-yur that had come to be around it, and the simian protectors who dwelled there.

      Yet the blood curdling fear he experienced at that name was nothing compared to the explosion of horror Gantu experienced when the young Silver Back said, He's locked himself in the Control Room. He's going to let the others run amok!

      Dr. Gantu hurried to his emergency kit storage

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