Specimen

While out for a walk, Carl encounters two aliens hunting for scientific subjects to study, and they think he's just what they're looking for. Naturally, Carl has some reservations, but he quickly becomes enmeshed in a series of mishaps and mistaken identities as he tries to avoid becoming the next "Specimen".In 2188 NextYorkCity Senior Detective Damian Manx is known as on of the Global Police Forces' leading investigators. Especially when it comes to Unexplained Death cases.But even the seasoned detective is stumped when a series of brutal murders take place seemingly without any direct link between the victims, or with the killer leaving behind any useful clues.Now he's got the lifeless bodies of five women, a wet-behind-the-ears young partner, and a medical examiner with a strangely obsessive interest in the past to deal with. And not a clue where to start."Hell Found Me" is a short narrative rewriting of NPD Case File #UD2188-479NP.This Short Story provides backstory information to Greg Redd's upcoming series of full length near-future novels featuring Damian Manx.