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I'm researching an article on vampires, with only a few days to go before my Halloween deadline. I find myself in a small, wet city, with weatherbeaten brick buildings, cobblestone streets, and a big forest off on the edge of town. The forest is strange -- it looks like a hybrid between your typical dark "Blair Witch" woods and a lush tropical jungle. I talk to some townspeople about their local vampires. They tell me the vampires in this city have a body-snatcher methodology. When a fledgling vampire makes his or her first kill, the victim's body becomes the vampire's body for the rest of eternity. However, the older vampires don't tell this to the younger vampires, because they think karma should come back to those who choose weak and easy targets. A lot of vampires thus end up with the bodies of elderly or crippled humans and are given less respect in the vampire community. In this town by the jungle, however, some lazy young vampires choose gorillas as their first victims. They, of course, end up as gorilla-vampires. As I look toward the edge of the jungle, I see several staring out, with big, sad Keene-painting eyes and fangs that look almost comical. They seem depressed at their lot in life. "So the local drugstore has to make a lot of special orders," says the elderly town sage standing next to me. "Vampire Prozac." |
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