Margaret had driven me from Boston to Missouri. There wasn't much to see in this part of the show me state, but hey, it was cool, you know? I had just lost my Mother, and what a tragic loss it was, and I had just found out about my powers. Some big daddy vamp was supposed to be in the area, and hey, if he was all big and bad, then he needed a good ( Read more... )

Margaret drove after I had told her that my Mother had died, and did it in silence. I was five by five with that. She didn't ask too many questions, and though she was old and smelled a little bit like aspercreme, or Ben-Gay, she knew instinctively how to react towards me, and I respected that. She didn't crowd me, or ride me, she just told me what ( Read more... )

I couldn't help but not talk and it was uncomfortable and all, but the way that I figured it, was that I didn't have anythin' to say right now, so why say anythin' at all?

I had just found out that my Mother had been killed in a fire at my old apartment, and I didn't tell Margaret about it. I suppose that I should feel all bad about it, but I don' ( Read more... )

Trust wasn't exactly something that I had, but the new lady in my life, my watcher, was open, honest and seemed to care about me and that was a new one. With a mother like mine, you just never could count on anyone but yourself, and as a child, that was a rough pill to swallow, but it had made me stronger. Now, forces beyond comprehension had made ( Read more... )

I was havin' myslef a grand old time of it. This new power thing was so cool. Not like I was out lookin' for fights and everything, but I had some enemies around here, especially in Southie, and they were the butch types of bitches, the bitches that before, I wouldn't back away from like some of the other girls in the neighborhood would, but I ( Read more... )

Boston is for the birds in the winter. Now that it's summertime and all, it's not much better. Here I am, workin' some cute guy, and it turns out that he's not exactly packin'. In fact, the two minutes that I would have had with him, if I let it get that far, would have been painless, and worse, it would have been non-feelin ( Read more... )