Dr. Immortal (Completed)

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My Novellas all are a part of the same universe. o7

When the Fog Calls, Will You Sleep or Wander?

Dr. Isla Reyes thought she’d buried the past, but whenEvelyn Hart— an old rival with a reputation for making people disappear — arrives unannounced at Isla's remote Amazon research site, she knows better than to run. Evelyn doesn’t extend offers. She issues orders. And this time, her leverage is an opportunity Isla can’t ignore.

Her new job?Site-X0— a place so classified even its clearance code doesn’t exist on any official records. Somewhere within anEndless Sealies an island where something impossible swims: an immortal fish that can regenerate in seconds. Science calls it a discovery. Evelyn calls it leverage. Isla just calls it bait — her bait.

But there’s something about The Fog in this other dimension. It clings. It listens. It knows her. And the deeper they go, the less her crew feels like themselves. Laughter grows distant. Shadows move when no one does. The air shifts, carrying the soft echoes of something moving just out of sight. Isla remembers Evelyn’s warning:“When the fog comes, sleep. Do not stay awake.”

They say fog hides things. Isla’s beginning to think it reveals them.

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Status
Completed
Year
2025

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Rating
3.6/ 5.0
Followers
113
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8,348

Chapters(20 total)

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Community Reviews(1)

  • dzweigRoyal Road
    ★★ 2.0
    Dr. Immortal has the makings of a good story.  Perhaps I should say a good introduction, as it turns out to be the lead-in to a yet-unwritten story.
    Good:  Given that it's a lead-in, it does its job - introducing characters, introducing the setting, hinting at where the story is going.
    Weak: The plot is crowded out by tropes.  There are aliens and ancient civilizations, the Bermuda triangle, devils and unicorns and maybe-angels, creatures with enormous tentacles, spooky shadow creatures.  This leads in turn to a structural problem:  The first half of the novella passes before we get to the actual story, and another quarter happens before we get to the core of the story.
    If this novella was meant to be an introduction, it was too long.  If it was meant to be a sample, it was told too little story.