📁 The F.L.E.M.M.I.N.G. Files // Case 001
Subject status: TRANSFORMED
He wanted to be the wolf.
Turns out he's the dog.
Jack Jacobs cried wolf for years. Then he finally turned into his inner animal — and it was a border collie.
A chemical spill in the school science lab wakes something called the F.L.E.M.M.I.N.G. compound. Now Jack is herding shadows, hearing dogs three streets over, and racing to save the grizzly bear that used to be his biology teacher — all before spring break ends.
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"They say the boy who cried wolf got eaten by one. Nobody tells you what happens when the boy turns out to be the wolf — or worse, the dog."
> DESIGNATION: F.L.E.M.M.I.N.G.
> EXPANSION: Fluctuating Latent Epigenetic Mutagenic
> ORIGIN: chemical spill, school prep lab
> EFFECT: subject becomes their inner animal
> CATCH: subject does not get to pick
> KNOWN SUBJECTS: 3 (+1 hostile)
> CONTAINMENT: Unknown
The Briefing
What is the F.L.E.M.M.I.N.G. compound?
It started as a stain on a science-lab floor. Now it's rewriting kids from the inside out — and turning the animal each of them feels like into the animal they actually become.
The twist nobody warned them about? You don't get to choose. Jack wanted fangs and a howl. He got a herding instinct and the ears of a very anxious dog.
It's a story about the one thing none of us can outrun: becoming who you really are, even when it's nothing like who you wanted to be.
For parents & teachers
Funny first, with a little bite.
The F.L.E.M.M.I.N.G. Files is built for the 10–14 reader who wants adventure with real stakes — laugh-out-loud narration, a few genuinely tense moments, and zero nightmares. It's a great fit for reluctant readers and fans of monster-sized stories with a big heart underneath.
Underneath the fur and the chaos, it's the same thing every JP Prentice book is really about: understanding what you feel, and becoming who you are.