Viska: Anatomy of a Human Soul

Welcome, The Doctor Will See You Now......

Mad scientists have always had a bad rap over the years for strange experiments that sought to reduce people to numbers and results: Doctor Frankenstein, Davros, and Dr. Loveless, just to name a few. So what makes Doctor Viska any different from the other mythical figures of literature and entertainment?

Would you believe a sense of morality?

This is a collection of short stories, each of a different tale into Doctor Viska's exploits into the human condition, the physical body, and the threshold either are capable of withstanding.

Don't dare to call his subjects "victims", or you may end up on his bad side. There is a reason for his madness, despite what anyone may think, but don't be so eager to fear Doctor Viska too quickly.

Behind the blood-drenched apron, surgical gloves and medical instruments, there's a heart of gold behind it all, though he's not too keen on showing it.

Take Marjorie: a forty-something wife of an insurance salesman, who not only helps to run the local neighborhood watch, provide nourishments for the community football games, and is always the first to sign up for making costumes for the fundraiser pageant, but she rarely ever has a negative thing to say about anyone. One may think this makes her a model citizen to the rest of her community, but she's almost too perfect in her ideals.
What skeletons reside in her closet?

Despite the gore, blood and viscera residing within these tales, there's a lesson to be learned in the actions taken in every day life and their consequences.

There is hope mixed with the sadism residing in these short stories, a hope that the seemingly natural human condition can be altered to become something better, to want to strive beyond what it has already achieved. These aren't simply tales about punishment, but the need for the species, homo sapiens, to grow past its violent tendencies, even if it means one person at a time. That's alright; Viska has a lot of time on his hands, and plenty of instruments to work with.