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Chapter 5 - Anxious

    I was edgy the rest of the week waiting for Saturday to come. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t concentrate. My mama noticed, of course. She kept asking if I was ok and I replied every time that I was just fine. I don’t think she bought it.
    When I got home form school on Thursday, I heard the phone ringing. I rushed to the phone and picked it up just before the answering machine did.
“Hello?” I asked breathlessly.
“ Hi, Wendi. How are you?” Stefan asked me.
I didn’t know why he was calling but I didn’t...

There they stood, the eight surgical vampires: Bradley, the amusing young vampire, Dunlop, the ugliest of the beautiful vampires, Neptune, the smartest vampire, Pablo, the Spanish vampire with a delicious accent, Sterling, the quietest of the group, Jordan, the clown vampire, Megan, the sweetest of the vampires, and Brittany, the loudest and most misbehaved vampire of the group. The vampires, young and old were about to undergo another one of their thousands of surgeries.
    The man who was undergoing the surgery was a young man named George. George needed a heart transplant,...

Michael Talbot
1982
406 pages

- Finally, the "truth" about the vampire!

Michael Talbot has woven a tale of the vampire unlike any you have read. He places them historically in the development of the human race, identifying them as artists, popes, collectors and inventors. He depicts them as the curators of all things important to human kind. It is the way they obtain those things worth protecting that is the meat of his book, The Delicate Dependency. Set in London at the turn of the century, a kidnapping of a child occurs which sends her father and a renowned vampire hunter on a chase all over...

“Don’t piss me off!” I yelled at the counselor, “You really don’t want to see me mad.” Of course I was already mad, but there was no other way I could have explained my anger issues at her.
    She sat in her green plastic chair, trying to look professional under pressure. Her short blonde bangs stuck to her forehead with sweat. I almost giggled. I was making this tough for her. She has never handled a girl like the one I am.
    “Please, Aly, try to reason with me.” She stood up, arms reaching towards me shakily. Aly. Did she just call...