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Bitter Breed
“Bitter Breed showcases Dino Parenti’s unique talent of writing smart horror with nuanced characters. He unearths the secrets of this cinematic story with amazing skill.” —Mercedes M. Yardley, two-time Bram Stoker Award winner of Little Dead Red and “Fracture.”
An elderly couple who’ve fled tragedy in the city for solitude in the Canadian Rockies…
Two violent ex-cons on a mission to bust out one of their crew from a prison bus…
Three scientists fleeing a clandestine military laboratory where dozens of their monstrous, aggressive creations have escaped...
These lives are about to collide in a remote mountain diner in Last Chance, Yukon.
Trapped inside the Last Chance Grill and cut off by a looming snowstorm, seven strangers find themselves surrounded by deadly, radically enhanced humanoid creatures designed to thrive in extreme climates, and who have tracked down their creators. Chief of these is the stoic but anguished Dr. Amos Huber, hired by a government splinter group to employ his genius in militarized experiments involving climate change. Crushed by the death of his only child, Amos struggles to reconcile his secretive past while also trying to band together the disparate, clashing group of scientists, diners, and determined ex-cons holding everyone hostage. If they can survive the night when the creatures are their strongest, most cunning, and hungriest, they might be able to summon help and prevent their excursion into more populated areas.
Bitter Breed is not just a last-stand eco-horror survival thriller, but also an examination of regret, grief, and future anxieties.
An elderly couple who’ve fled tragedy in the city for solitude in the Canadian Rockies…
Two violent ex-cons on a mission to bust out one of their crew from a prison bus…
Three scientists fleeing a clandestine military laboratory where dozens of their monstrous, aggressive creations have escaped...
These lives are about to collide in a remote mountain diner in Last Chance, Yukon.
Trapped inside the Last Chance Grill and cut off by a looming snowstorm, seven strangers find themselves surrounded by deadly, radically enhanced humanoid creatures designed to thrive in extreme climates, and who have tracked down their creators. Chief of these is the stoic but anguished Dr. Amos Huber, hired by a government splinter group to employ his genius in militarized experiments involving climate change. Crushed by the death of his only child, Amos struggles to reconcile his secretive past while also trying to band together the disparate, clashing group of scientists, diners, and determined ex-cons holding everyone hostage. If they can survive the night when the creatures are their strongest, most cunning, and hungriest, they might be able to summon help and prevent their excursion into more populated areas.
Bitter Breed is not just a last-stand eco-horror survival thriller, but also an examination of regret, grief, and future anxieties.
114 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 27, 2024
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Dino Parenti
27 books12 followersDino Parenti is a writer of dark literary and speculative fiction. He is the winner of the first annual Lascaux Review flash fiction contest and is featured in the Anthony Award winning anthology Blood on the Bayou. His short-fiction collection, Dead Reckoning and Other Stories, is now out with Crystal Lake Publishing. He lives in Los Angeles.
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October 4, 2024
I really enjoyed this creature feature! It's sci-fi horror with lots of carnage and a cast of great characters you cannot help but root for. It starts very mysteriously, as three scientists who're being hunted, find temporary shelter in a diner deep in Canada. Unbeknownst to them, the place has already been targeted for a criminal operation. Parenti subtly draws the two plotlines together, and when the boiling point is reached, mayhem ensues. The originality of the ending cannot be overstated! Great horror suspense with awesome action scenes and lots of blood and gore!
September 27, 2024
This books opens with a scene so cinematic in its storytelling that I felt I was watching a movie. Parenti gives us a smart, scientific creature-feature that manages to be both chilling and full of heart. The characters resonate, the danger feels real, and the ending is beautifully done and quite memorable. I highly recommend Bitter Breed!
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