"We want to take him out on a fact-finding mission. He is the only chance we have to infiltrate one of our own among the ruling vamps and find out what they are up to with this new plan." She stared, aghast. "You have us torture him for more than a decade, and now you want to let him go? Are you insane? He isn’t one of our own and he never will be ( Read more... )

Nobody likes trees anymore. We still remember that they're necessary to clean the air and provide wood and food and shelter and all that, but nobody likes living near the trees and nobody likes going in the trees. Same thing goes for cities with skyscrapers or other tall buildings that block out the lights and leave only shadows. I think we've ( Read more... )

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The dance club was hoppin'. The ladies were gorgeous, the men were suave, the drinks were cold, the music was hot, and he felt alive for the first time that day. He'd only found the place yesterday, and he'd gone home at 2 AM still riding the surge of adrenaline. Street lights shone like strobes, college girls hurrying home looked like dancers, and ( Read more... )

I stood in the sun's X-ray, feeling my bones melt and dissolve and wondering if I would live beyond the sunrise. It had been six hundred years--on the early side, for the transform, according to the notes of those who were left behind. Many didn't risk it until a thousand years, when the odds were 80 percent of success. And we didn't even know if ( Read more... )

So there I stood, feeling kind of foolish, blood on my mouth, my hands, and all over my shirt--of course I hadn't worn dark clothes or bothered with a bib, because I wasn't going to eat people anymore. And Rhonda was so proud of me, too, for losing some of that blood lust and the unsightly tooth length that went along with it. The diet was working ( Read more... )

Surprise make-outs were surprising! Especailly when you discovered mid-session that you were making out with a vampire. A quick round of spin-the-bottle seemed harmless enough, but when Rob, the new kid at school, the one with the skin condition that got him excused from gym, was kissing her--suddenly she felt something hard shooting out in his ( Read more... )

It was all well and good being part of "Team Vampire" until we attracted actual vampire fans. We got the name because it was night baseball, and well, there was that whole "Twilight" craze sweeping around at about the same time. It wasn't serious. Hell, most of us (not all--but I'll get to that later) didn't even think vampires existed. We would ( Read more... )

"Dinner plans, my darling?" he drawled, wrapping one hand casually around her shoulders ( Read more... )

Maybe the cape and the trickle of blood at the corner of his mouth was a little much, but his mama had told him, "Always dress over, not under, when you're going to a job interview." So far he'd had no problem getting whatever job he'd set his heart on, so he reckoned her advice was good. After all, it was going to get him the girl he wanted, too. ( Read more... )