![]() ![]() “A sink had fallen on the Komodo monitor and busted up its head pretty bad.”Īfter that sentence appeared, the zookeeper Lemuel Lee Frobey and his Uncle Earl started walking around their family-owned reptile park named Lizard World. After a while I found myself typing the following sentence: ![]() Not long after that I sat down at my keyboard and began to wonder what kind of voice this embryonic character might have - and what he might want to say. Something about that man fondling that alligator amused me so much that it struck me with a revelation: I had just met one of my characters. We were part of a small audience watching a zookeeper demonstrate how to put an alligator to sleep by stroking its up turned belly. ![]() I was down in Florida with my family, visiting a zoo that harbors a variety of reptiles and other exotic animals. A dentist from New Jersey, marooned at midnight in the Florida swamps, makes the mistake of falling into the clutches of a hilariously depraved family of amateur surgeons devoted to a 17th-century libertine whose discovery of an elixir has kept his evil presence alive for the past three-hundred years. ![]()
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