Clutching Cthulhu's Pearls: A Time for Monsters Romance

Harriett
1922, Cypress Kentucky, USA
Does Leopold suspect me? My aging husband's beady eyes are glued to his experiments and notes, but I twitch as if I'm the specimen he examines. His work created our menagerie of selectively bred and surgically enhanced animals-ugly snakes with mouse heads, birds with paws and puppy faces, and worse. They frighten me, but not as much as my future of lonely nights in an empty marriage bed. If we still lived in Boston, among the speakeasies and dancehalls, I'...