Goat-Mandrill

Goat-Mandrill

 

“It’s huge but slender, lumbering forth on large, muscular arms and smaller legs. It’s covered in a coarse coat of dark olive-green hair, except are the forearms and legs, where the hair bushes out and turns a pallid gray. Its face has an elongated muzzle with a very marked angle where the nose meets the forehead, scarlet in the central area and bluest on the sides. There are two small horns protruding from its head, and at its chin appears to be some kind of beard. It’s sitting with its back to the wall, and it leans a little to the side, just enough for me to see two large, purple calluses on its rear end, with a short, bushy tail protruding from it. It’s a baboon, a mandrill from the looks of it. It’s about three times the size of a normal baboon, though, and it seems to have some aspects that remind me of a mountain goat. It’s got a few bullet holes plugged, obviously not from my gun. ”

-Excerpt from “Godmode,” the new sci-fi thriller novel from Quan Williams