CAIN'S BLOOD

Cain's Blood is a tale of blood. Specifically, the DNA of the world's most notorious serial killers, cloned by the department of defense to develop a new "breed" of bio-weapon. The program is now in Stage Three-with dozens of young male clones from age ten to eighteen kept and monitored at a private facility without any self-realization of who, of what, they really are. Some are put with typical families and raised like everyday kids. Others live with abusive parents in hellish circumstances. The ultimate study in nature versus nurture.

When security is breached and the most dangerous boys are set free by the doctor who created them, black ops veteran Castillo is brought in to hunt them down. But Castillo never counted on Jeffrey, the quiet fourteen-year-old boy he finds hiding in the closet, the one who can help find the clones before they kill everything in their path, a boy, every boy. who has just learned that he is the clone of Jeffrey Dahmer. Geoffrey Girard is an award-winning short story author. His short fiction has appeared in several best-selling anthologies and magazines, including Writers of the Future (he was a 2003 winner), Damned Nation, Prime Codex, Aoife's Kiss, The Willows, Murky Depths, Apex Horror & Science Fiction Digest, and, most recently, Dark Faith (A 2010 Stoker-nominated anthology).