Bite Me
By
David C. Thomas

 
Synopsis

 

   

      As dawn breaks in Central Park, an Irish Setter named JOJO is bitten by a naked man. The next morning JoJo wakes up with the body of a human. His owner JAKE, wants to believe it’s a hoax, but the hard evidence just screams werewolf. Jake enlists the help of their brilliant and beautiful veterinarian, ANN. She reasons that since a worm can go to sleep and wake up a butterfly, the man-child Jake found in his triple-locked, high-rise apartment that morning could be/was his dog. They take JoJo to DR. GILHAM, an Internist who takes special interest in rare disorders.
 
     JoJo struggles to learn the ropes of operating a human body and all its natural functions. Ann and the doctor run DNA tests to verify this science-shattering metamorphosis. Meanwhile Jake returns to the park in search of answers. He meets the OLD SKATEBOARDER, the alpha male of a pack of werewolves who live and hunt in the Central Park. Retired alpha, DEACON, finds the werewolf network afraid that JoJo’s existence will out them. But the Deacon believes that Dr. Gilham may discover a cure for lycanthropy - the secret dream of all werewolves.
 
     Wereperson JoJo takes the human name Jonah. He applies his oddball aptitude for relating to dogs in his new job at Ann’s uptown veterinarian clinic. He can get dogs to obey like no one else – making him the best damn dog walker in New York City. But as he becomes more human he falls in love with Ann. Jake and Jonah fight over her and in the scuffle Jonah accidentally bites Jake – forcing him to face some strange changes of his own.
 
     The werewolves bite Dr. Gilham, making him one of them. They offer to fund his research. The good doctor is now highly motivated to find that cure and perhaps win a Nobel Prize. When the time comes for the research to go public the werewolf pack relocates to Florida to avoid being hunted down in the park by gangs of self-righteous morons. They leave our heroes to face the storm of publicity that will hit when the world learns that werewolves are a natural phenomenon – a fact that will throw a monkey-wrench into both the theory of evolution and intelligent design alike.
 
     Jake and Jonah learn to accept the fact that Ann won’t chose between them. The three remain best friends even though each one is now a slightly different species.

 

 
 

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