January 03, 2026
Scoob
That was the working title for my latest short story. I just finished it today, now I need to let it marinate for a little while before I do final edits and submit it.
Raconteur Press is doing another Mad Science anthology, and I'm hoping to get in again. (They average 100 submissions per book, when they only take ten!) I'd had this idea cooking in the back of my mind for a long time as a background story in Dr. Mauser. Literally background - it was going to be running on a TV tuned to the History Channel or something. It was the real story behind the Scooby Doo gang, as it would be in the Dr. Mauser universe. So you'd have interviews of the surviving cast, telling what really happened to them, which was entirely at odds with the cartoon made about them. Instead of real estate scammers, they ran afoul of a Dr. Moreau-like Mad I'd dubbed "el Monstroso". It did not go well for them.
But hey, it led to The Code to be modified to extend protections to Boy Detectives, Girl Sleuths, Meddling Kids and high school Clue Clubs.
I never did anything with that for years, but it was there. When the call for a second volume came out, I even asked the editor whether he'd prefer one idea I had, about an agent trying to track down stolen forbidden tech, or this, and he said this. So hopefully that gives me a leg up.
Of course, I had to file all the serial numbers off. The only thing left is each character's first initial. The dog is now a German Shepard, and the Mad was his creator. "El Monstroso" is known for building chimeras, and the dog was the first time he'd dabbled in human bits.
Oh, there were all kinds of things I wanted to fit in there as fun references, but didn't make it in. (Moreau being real, and H.G. Wells being paid by Justice to fictionalize the tale in order to give it deniability.) (A government scientist in the Florida Keys named Kenton Best.), but once I get a flow going, it's hard to crowbar things in, and it was already 7000 words (The allowed range being 5-8K).
Anyway, if rabid Scooby Doo fans find it, I'm going to get lynched.
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