In My Wheelhouse

[alleyalligator]

All I ever wanted was to be a mum, to hold my own baby in my arms, smell its soft, newborn smell, shower its head with kisses, cuddle it from dawn ‘til dusk.  When I got pregnant with Tara, I can’t describe how happy I was to see those little blue lines.  Everyone said that I was a natural mother and when I fell pregnant with Tilly when Tara was

Comments

[whipchick]

This was neat, and I love your grounding in reality before heading into vampire. This feels like it would make a fantastic book plot, too!

[alleyalligator]

I know that people have talked about a lot of my other stories needing continuing, but this is the first one for a while that I felt I could do a lot more with.

[karmasoup]

Wow, the head of a newborn... that's a level of debauchery I've never seen in any vampire tale... fantastic!

[alleyalligator]

Thanks! I figured that she'd never really lose her fascination with children...

[similiesslip]

This is creepy and strange yet relatable in parts. You really wove this story together well.

Amazing!

[alleyalligator]

Thanks - I really wanted it to be more about mothering than vampirism.

[m_malcontent]

I usually turn up my nose at vampire tales, because usually "vampire" is shorthand for a Byronic hero and it is clear that it is the authors cop out for not wanting to deal with "human" darkness.

But your vampire isn't a cop out. Well done.

[alleyalligator]

I have a bit of an issue with the de-vamping of vampires. If I were to ever do full length vampire fiction, mine would be dark and nasty with real bite. None of this humanity nonsense!

[jem0000000]

This is wonderful -- love the subtlety, and it really is more about mothering than anything else. :)

[alleyalligator]

Thank you!

[jem0000000]

You're welcome!