1 Chapter I was standing on the corner of Spring and Second Streets when the whole city of Los Angeles shook As the ground RRRRUMBLED I grabbed the mailbox next to me and wished everything would just stop moving And then it did That’s when I realized I’d just survived my first earthquake It had only lasted a second or two It
must have been a really small one on the Rictor or Richter or whatever-you-call-it scale Nothing was damaged and no one was hurt In fact no one else seemed to notice the earthquake at all I guess here in Los Angeles little earthquakes like that one were pretty normal Everyone around me just kept driving or walking The only thing that seemed weird to them was me That wasn’t too surprising Anyone who’s met me knows I can make a pretty odd first impression Maybe it’s because my feet are too big for my legs Or because my left hand is way bigger than my right Or because one eye is
blue and the other is bright green Or maybe it’s because I’m the son of FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER Not that any of the people passing me in downtown Los Angeles knew that I had only just found that out myself I never knew my dad but I had read about him I’d only bothered to print out one of the newspaper articles I’d found and taped it here in my journal because they were all pretty much the same Apparently my dad tended to freak people out
MONSTER FRANKENSTEIN'S Some people are scared of genetically modified food Imagine how they felt meeting a genetically modified MAN Actually I imagined how they felt a lot I wished I could’ve traded places with them and met my dad But he disappeared after leaving me at Mr Shelley’s Orphanage for Lost and Neglected
