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www.PeterAndTheVampires.com
- by Darren Pillsbury
PETER AND THE VAMPIRES is a horror/comedy web novel (and a free podcast!)about a normal, 10-year-old kid who moves into a sinister town filled with supernatural horribleness. The series is composed of different "monster of the week" stories - kind of like THE X-FILES crossed with THE SIMPSONS (if Mr. Burns were a ghoul and something terrifying lived in the town dump). "Peter And The Dead Men" is the first story in the collection. A new page is posted every day.
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- "Peter And The Swamp Monster" - Page 69
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5 comments:
Wow, that was morbid and gross! But surely, if he was in the actual stomach, the stomach acid would have seriously injured him. Predators have much stronger stomach acid than humans, especially those who swallow their prey whole. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to digest their food!
Hey Cat,
Interesting point. However, snakes, sharks, and alligators all have extremely slow digestive systems. My guess is that their stomach acid isn't that powerful. Crocodiles in particular usually let their prey rot for a good while before they eat them (sorry if that's TMI, folks). I figure a giant frog would have a similarly slow digestive system, and that three minutes tops in there wouldn't hurt Peter. And if there are any biologists reading this who can assure me that it would indeed hurt him, well, then...the swamp monster is a 'missing link,' with organs unlike anything in modern amphibians, and the stomach Peter was in was actually an "antechamber" organ for the storage of food, with very weak hydrochloric acid. Kind of like...salivary gland-level enzyme stomach juices.
Mmm. Hope nobody was eating lunch while they read that.
I wondered aloud about that the other night. Thanks for the Q&A!
I just started reading and I love these stories. I actually AM a Biologist reading this but I can assure you, in a world where vampires and dead men walk, I'm not going to argue the biology of a giant swamp monster's stomach. :)
Huzzah! Science approves!
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