The Water Eater, Winston Marks
The Water Eater, Winston Marks
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The Water Eater

Author: Winston Marks

Narrator: Scott Miller

Unabridged: 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/07/2021

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Most experiments were dropped because they failed--and some because they worked too well!I just lost a weekend. I ain't too anxious to find it. Instead, I sure wish I had gone fishing with McCarthy and the boys like I'd planned.I drive a beer truck for a living, but here it is almost noon Monday and I haven't turned a wheel. Sure, I get beer wholesale, and I have been known to take some advantage of my discount. But that wasn't what happened to this weekend.Instead of fishing or bowling or poker or taking the kids down to the amusement park over Saturday and Sunday, I've been losing sleep over an experiment.Down at the Elks' Club, the boys say that for a working stiff I have a very inquiring mind. I guess that's because they always see me reading Popular Science and Scientific American and such, instead of heading for the stack of Esquires that are piled a foot deep in the middle of the big table in the reading room, like the rest of them do.Well, it was my inquiring mind that lost me my wife, the skin of my right hand, a lot of fun and sleep--yeah, not a wink of sleep for two days now! Which is the main reason I'm writing this down now. I've read somewheres that if you wrote down your troubles, you could get them out of your system.I thought I had troubles Friday night when I pulled into the driveway and Lottie yelled at me from the porch, "The fire's out! And it's flooded. Hurry up!"Trouble, hah! That was just the beginning.

Reviews

Goodreads review by DOUGLAS J BERRY on December 10, 2020

Another Blob. Old fashioned sci fi. Winston k marks brings us a story of home chemistry. This story is very similar to the movie version of the blob. Why do some people feel threatened by a non specific threat?......more

Goodreads review by Luke on December 20, 2021

Fun little home DIY blob story with an amusingly detached protagonist.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 09, 2022

Ewww...okay.........more

Goodreads review by Ray on June 30, 2019

Odd, but okay.......more

Goodreads review by James on September 10, 2017

I enjoyed the tone the story was written in. The story was interesting as well. A horror story wrapped up in science fiction.......more