Dark Roast by Dani Brown

This is the weird one. 

With a new introduction from the author.

Sleep is overrated.

Scientists stayed awake for days on end drinking genetically modified dark roast coffee. They did more secret experiments that way, at night when the government wasn’t watching. They needed coffee to see through their boring days of chasing funding and government regulations.

On top of a big hill resided his lair. Everywhere a cage or a tank of his creations.

He was fond of dating and old werewolf movies when he wasn’t splicing genes. Sometimes he tried to mix all three together.

A potted plant sent a clawed tentacle snaking around his ankle to trip him up…