Vampires, time machines, deals with the devil – all classic genre tropes familiar to readers. With DEVIATIONS FROM THE NORM, Mark Allan Gunnells delivers three novellas that offer up these tropes with fresh and original twists, making the familiar new again. In “The Unholy Eucharist,” a stranger visits a priest with a strange confession, providing a shocking origin story for the vampire legend that takes readers back to Biblical times and then forward throughout history, weaving a tale that is both epic and deeply personal. In “Kronoz,” a brilliant scientist has broken the barriers of time and found a way to travel into the past. Before going public with his discovery, he will use it to first go back in time to right a terrible wrong and save someone close to him. But will saving her mean destroying his own future? In “The Price of Success,” a frustrated writer grows jealous of his friend’s literary triumphs. During a night of drunken bitterness, he makes a deal with a devilish entity to change his friend’s fate as well as his own. However, this deal has unforeseen consequences. Step into these three worlds with Gunnells, allow him to surprise and delight you with his DEVIATIONS FROM THE NORM!