Children of the Night

I quickly discovered that sustaining my thirst with plasma pouches had me spending money faster than I could make it. I learned I could fish or hunt for frogs to convert to plasma. As unappetizing as that sounded, I was game to try. Fishing relaxed me, but it felt like a waste of time. I could be writing and earning money. I left the fishing spot feeling discouraged when I spotted Marcus. He walked right past me like he'd never seen me before. That fucker! I made up my mind right there and then, that we'd go on a date and I'd convince him to become my man. Then we'd go on another date and I'd dump his ass. No one's treating me like that. I dreaded going back to the shack. I was still wary of spending too much with the writing gigs not paying much and the plasma packs costing a small mint. But I scavenged around a construction site and a clearance home improvement shop. Stone floors, a bit of wallpaper with a new counter and sink brightened up th...

It seemed most of the men that came strolling through Forgotten Hollow were married losers. I wasn't that desperate yet. I finally found a single guy and he was smoking hot. This was going to be fun. I laid it on thick, telling him he was the shit. Then my fucking hunger reared it's ugly head. "Excuse me, my blood sugar's getting a little low." We walked and chatted until we were at my property. I got him hot and bothered, then pulled him into the bushes. Twice for better chances of his jizz hitting the target. While he lay on the ground with a goofy smile on his face, I slipped into the shack to pee on a stick. Score! I popped back out to tell Marcus Flex his boys could swim. His response was less than enthusiastic. Even though that was reasonable, it pissed me off. I sent him away and tried to calm the fuck down before I ripped a hole in his neck.

In reading on vamp lore, I figured out why vamps were going extinct and I (once becoming a vamp) needed to mate with humans. If two vamps had a baby together  - who knew they could even do that? - their baby would be a vamp from day one. Controlling a vamp toddler or child  was almost impossible and they'd have to be locked away from humans during those years. It made them almost impossible to integrate in human society later. But a vamp and human had a 50/50 chance of having a vamp baby that wouldn't exhibit any vampire abilities until the teen years. With a normal childhood and turning at a more mature age, they'd fare much better. The problem is a male vamp couldn't impregnate a female human and leave the baby with it's mom. The little tyke would likely drain it's mother first chance. And most female vamps didn't want to risk falling in love with a human male, knowing they'd watch their beloved die. That's where I came in: breed with loads of ...

After the old woman left the library I texted my mom and told her I was leaving town. I smashed my old phone and threw it in the trash can before I caught my bus. I slept fitfully throughout the night in the cramped bus seat. The driver dumped me off in the middle of fucking nowhere on the first day of autumn. The map told me what road to follow to Forgotten Hollow. My breath hitched in delight at my first glimpse. This was my kind of place! I wondered which beautiful house was mine. I looked for the address as I walked down the street. My jaw dropped when I laid eyes on my new property. Shit! This place was a dump! Maybe it was a magic building like a Harry Potter tent or the Tardis and it was bigger and nicer on the inside? Fuck no, this place was a hellhole. That bitch pulled a fast one. I wasn't going to stay! The instant I thought those words, my wrist where I'd made the cut for signing in blood began to burn and ooze. I'd signed a contract. I...