The beach was just I had remembered it from so many years ago. It was more difficult to get back than I had originally thought it would. It took some quick thinking and a slight push of my immortal power to finagle my way onto a transport. I wasn't so surprised though, it had been many years and things had to have undoubtedly changed over that ( Read more... )

As I approached the darkened house, the only sign that there was anyone in residence came from the light filtered through the shear curtains up on the second floor; Santino's study. I was already feeling apprehensive knowing I would have to face Santino, and I really hadn't come up with an acceptable excuse to explain my absence. Then an idea ( Read more... )

It took a great amount of effort on my part to scan people individually when there were so many of them standing so close. The voices seemed to gained strength and clarity, like a focused radio frequency that it was much more difficult than I thought it would be to single only one out at a time. Reaching into each mind, their eyes looking about ( Read more... )

The blood was indefinable. How can one put to words this feeling of absolute completion? Yet, there is that inevitable loneliness that accompanies such a feast. And as the body of this woman grew cold to my touch, her warmth was what infused every fiber of this immortal body. I laid there, unable to move, still swimming in the ecstasy of her ( Read more... )

I can feel the fabric of my sanity slowly stripping away. What is left beneath is too hideous to even fathom and no words can describe what I‘m turning into. I hunt alone now. Lately Santino has found some other form of entertainment to occupy his nights, and that’s how I’ve preferred it these last few weeks. These insatiable desires I have are ( Read more... )

Why do I let such a small thing bother me? It’s ridiculous, really. But, these small things (sorry about being cryptic) have a very nasty habit of stealing their way in when you thought you’d shut them out ( Read more... )

As it has become our custom since the night that we arrived, Santino and I sat and spoke of many things. Mostly I just listened, his voice so soothing it was hard to believe that the man so many have described as an uncaring fiend would take the time at all to teach me. Perhaps if they cared enough to spend more time in his company they would find ( Read more... )

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore - Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never - nevermore ( Read more... )

It comes again. I thought I had found a way to keep it all at bay. It was my models that kept me from ending this eternal nightmare of those years ago when I was alone, lost, and new to this life he had given me. Armand left me when he had grown tired of me. He left me, before I could leave him. If only he had more patience with me, he would ( Read more... )