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In From the Cold - Short on Chills and Thrills

Tranquil, predictable, and mundane. These were the typical New Jersey mornings Anya_ I mean, Jenny had grown accustomed to after so many years. And although she sorely missed the comfort and familiarity of mother Russia’s crimson soul soil under her feet, the peaceful family life she’d garnered herself far outweighed the blood soaked past she’d left behind… or at least that's what she tells herself. But whatever the truth may be, reality for the moment remained a mixed bag. An American dream home masking a rocky marriage destined for divorce. A prodigy ice skating daughter pushed over the hill into her resentful, rebellious phase. This and more made Jenny almost long for the simpler days of backroom assassinations and high stakes espionage. But coincidentally enough, as these dark clouds loomed overhead, a man in a black van parked across the street intently listened in to every verbal dagger exchanged, all through the bug he’d planted inside the home so many months ago. But what ...

Twisted Steel, Vamp Appeal

          A howling wind echoes throughout the dead of night, parting shadow glazed clouds hanging ominously overhead like a black stage curtain to reveal a blood moon lurking behind them. Beaming with its hateful glow, woodland shadows scatter back, humbling themselves like a sea of obedient servants or perhaps soldiers, ready at the beck and call for any mischievous charge bestowed upon them. And once those dark whispers permeate the air, so too do the shadows send out their children to wreak havoc upon the night. Wicked beasts, spectral apparitions, flesh hungry ghouls, and benders of death and shadow; but none more fearsome or revered than the blood hungry, winged eternals known as vampires.      Yes, for many a millennia, no fellow beast of flesh and bone ever stood a chance against these apex predators. Even humans, with all their spirited defiance, holy backing, and ingenuity, could only barely hold the accursed masses at bay. However,...