Embrace
I threw the glass of water into her sink, shattering
it. Cursing some more, I paced back and forth, trying to ignore the sounds
coming from her bedroom. Earlier I had run the garbage disposal to
drown it out. I opened the refrigerator again to find nothing in
it, and stood in front of it, closing the door behind me so it pressed
against my back, the thick air from inside drifting out and settling around
me.
When she arrived she was wearing only a long shirt.
She found me sitting on the counter top, banging my feet against the bottom
cupboard. She held out a hand to me.
"Come. I need to show you something."
"Fuck off," I growled. "Fucking whore!"
She walked calmly over to me, talking my hand and
sliding me off the counter. I wouldn't look at her.
"You have to see what I've done."
"Take me back. I don't give a damn about you
anymore!"
Instead she slipped her warm arms around me and kissed
me, the bitter taste of blood in her mouth.
Tom's Notes:
It should be clear in the end, if not from the beginning, that my main character becomes involved with a vampire. This story is a study on seduction. I find myself being drawn into this subject, this mysterious, dark world in the same way my main character does, and the alluring older woman fantasy is probably one most of us men can relate to. I like this story not only for the mood and feel it communicates, or the style, or the dark medium (one of my favorites for short story writing), but I like it because I like to watch my main character in his struggle between what he knows is wrong, but feels so right, with what he knows is right, but feels so worthless. This is a story of emotion winning over reason, a story of blatant seduction, and in the end remorse, but not regret. I both admire my character for being "loved by death" and at the same time, see his embrace (becoming) as the dark curse that it is, something that turns him into a killer, an outcast, and another lonely vampire who watches the things he loves slowly die around him while he remains the same.
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