I belong, as a contributing member, to a talented group of writers who are responsible for A Muse Bouche Review, a literary newsletter. It gives me a chance to write something new each month around a given theme, which I’m enjoying. The theme for February, 2024 is Sunrise/Sunset and my contribution this month is a piece of flash fiction titled Life Ain’t Easy for a Vampire. Here’s how it starts:

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Look, I know what you’re thinking: That’s bullshit. Vampires have it made. You couldn’t be more wrong, my friend, but it’s not your fault. You’ve been spoon fed a steady diet of totally made up mythology, half truths, and downright lies. I blame the writers—I’m looking at you, Bram Stoker and Anne Rice—and especially Hollywood. 

Hollywood don’t know shit about vampires.

I don’t have much time here, which I’ll explain, but let me drop a little knowledge on you, tell you what they get wrong.

I’ll start with one of the big ones—all vampires are obscenely rich. That’s what you think, right? In the old days we lived in vast castles, with dozens of servants from the village down below to snack on. Then we took our drachmas, our deutsche marks, francs, and rubles, and we invested them over centuries. Got in on the ground floor with Apple. Now we live in penthouses, fly in private jets, have starlets delivered like DoorDash when we’re feeling hangry.

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To read the entire story, and all the other pieces from this talented crew, check out the February A Muse Bouche Review, available here:

https://mailchi.mp/588e92aed141/a-muse-bouche-review-plots-parties-17617792?e=46f6fd2a9e#DMS