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Mrs. Caliban

Mrs. Caliban

A Novel

by Rachel Ingalls

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appears in Sci Fi Romance, Romance, and Science Fiction.

In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research_x0085_ Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls_x0092_s Mrs. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe_x0092_...

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appears in Sci Fi Romance, Romance, and Science Fiction.

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