The Demented Engineer

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The package dropped through the letterbox, landing on the mat with a loud, ominous thud.
‘That was a loud, ominous thud,’ thought Robbie as he was roused from his slumber. ‘Loud and ominous enough to wake me up.’

Robbie had always lead a normal kind of life . Normal, that is, until he receives an unexpected invitation from a mysterious benefactor and it becomes painfully clear a brilliant but very unhinged Professor is desperately keen to get his hands on him.

Robbie teams up with Polog, a Victorian gentleman/chimpanzee hybrid and one of the results of the Professor's experimenting, and embarks upon a series of unlikely adventures in an effort to locate the Professor before he gets to them.

‘Now Robbie, it’s getting late, and it’s a long way back to Redmarsh. There is plenty of room here if you wish to stay the night.’
Robbie wore a bit of a troubled look.
‘Oh, you’re quite safe here,’ reassured the Doctor. ‘The fiasco with the ants was a one-off, everything is secure now.’
‘No, it’s not that,’ Robbie replied. ‘It’s just that it’s all...’
‘A bit of a shock?’ suggested the Doctor.
‘Well, no. It’s just that it’s all a bit, kind of...,’ they waited for Robbie to finish his sentence, ‘...unrealistic.’
Polog raised his bushy eyebrows in surprise.
The Doctor removed his spectacles and gave them a polish with the silk handkerchief. ‘Unrealistic?’
‘Yes,’ Robbie replied. ‘I mean, last night when I went to bed, everything was normal. Then this morning a loud, ominous-sounding parcel comes through my letterbox with a letter inside from a Doctor I’ve never heard of, asking me to go to Redmarsh. I get on the train with these two weird ticket inspectors, then walk for ages through a forest to a secret house with massive plants and a multi-coloured deer thing in the garden. I meet the Doctor, who lives with some kind of Transylvanian servant and a mixed species human-chimpanzee, and he tells me all about a mad Professor who’s been doing experiments that shouldn’t really be possible.’
‘Yes?’ replied the Doctor.
Robbie paused. ‘It’s just that if some people heard all that,’ he said, ‘or, I dunno, read about it in a book or something, those people might have trouble believing it...’,

The Demented Engineer is a far-fetched tale of mystery, intrigue, revenge, great big explosions, little old ladies, horrible scaly monsters and genetic engineering gone very wrong.

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Joseph Farrell

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