Swamp Thing is a scientific experiment gone awry. The hero, Alex, is crossing living creatures with plants. A beautiful female scientist (because female scientists are always beautiful), Alice, arrives to help with his endeavors, capture his heart and develop her own elixir, which makes things grow faster. Naturally Alex and Alice combine their formulas to see what will happen. When the bad guys come to steal their work, a fire erupts, and Alex gets doused with the magical potion, catches alight and leaps into the swamp to extinguish the flames. Everyone believes he died — but he simply transformed into a half man/half plant creature. Alice is now a captive of the bad guys and it’s up to Alex to rescue her. But all she sees is a monster, until during a touching moment, he presents her with an orchid, and she realizes he is her lost love. But alas, no happy ending for them because he can’t quite accept what he’s become so he walks off to live alone in the swamp.
Swamp Thing needs to curl up beneath a mossy tree and read Love On My Mind by Tracey Livesay. Tech CEO, Adam, wants nothing to do with people either and avoids them at all costs. But when fate brings lovely PR specialist, Chelsea, to his door, he soon discovers advantages to letting others into his life. It’s a lesson that would serve our creature well, especially as the story’s ending is likely to appeal to his more sensitive side and make him cry — as it did me.