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November 2, 2009
- This is what happens when a blog entry is translated into French and then back into English. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. ROFLIf you want to read the original English version go here: http://schliessmann.blogspot.com/Or look for it here: http://www.redroom.com/member/schliessmannvampires picturesUn blog utilisant Le Blogue du Québec Larry Schliessmann’s Marlowe Black Mysteries: ...
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October 30, 2009
- ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ Fiona stuffed her tongue between her teeth, her freshly sharpened quill travelling over the virgin pages of a new exercise book she had pledged to keep spotless from beginning to end. Her coarse, crinkly hair, though braided and severely coiled, ...
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October 30, 2009
- Your vampire lover has been busy, gorging himself on local, well, prime rib. Now, it's up to you to clean up; after all, no vampire worth his canines would be caught alive with leftovers on his hands, or worse under his neatly manicured mother-of-pearl fingernails.Let's face it, not every hunt ends with a convert. Often, the need to feast and the ultimate pleasure that courses through otherwise ...
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October 29, 2009
- Where I grew up, the leaves were nearly gone by Halloween, but the first pitiless blast of winter had yet to be felt. This always made October 31 a singular date. A neither/nor time, a turning time, as in "the turning of the year." An in-between time. A time when the door between this world and the next opens just enough to allow traffic either way. A time when the dead are among us. ...
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October 22, 2009
- The Honourable Leo Quinn settled back against the shabby upholstery of the hackney cab and made a vain bid to suppress a yawn. Stuffing, he noticed, was bursting from a gash in the leather. Propriety obliged him to make use of such anonymous means of transport when escorting Essie and her kind, though he might not disdain to be seen with her in ...
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September 12, 2009
- Excerpt from MY MOTHER BIDS ME, a novel of Jane Austen's England on the Eve of Waterloo. (New edition of novel first published in 1984) All afternoon fugitives from the embattled plains beyond the Forêt de Soignes flocked into Brussels, bewildered peasants, panic-stricken hussars fresh from the unimagined horrors of Waterloo. As fast ...
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August 29, 2009
- Keep in mind that the first requirement for vampiric transformation is death. With that knowledge, one must reevaluate the title Vampire Slayer. To slay is to kill, meaning the final product of slaying is a corpse.Well of course, if you begin your slaying by killing the dead, you can understand the confusion. How does one kill what is already dead?Therefore, how do we define the efforts of those ...
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August 25, 2009
- Excerpt from MY MOTHER BIDS ME, a Novel of Jane Austen's England on the Eve of Waterloo. Roisin scampered off down the lane and sat in a niche on the packhorse bridge to read her letter. Water sparkled and chuckled over the pebbles way below, giving expression to her own abounding joy. She had recognised the handwriting at once as that of ...
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July 8, 2009
- Dismembering the story for a look inside.I sat down with a few vague ideas that included story location and the ending.A rainy dismal day evokes a similar dreary emotion. Old unused railroad tracks tell of a forgotten past. A railroad station once the center of a community, when abandoned often houses the homeless, the castoffs.Enter famed vampire hunter Annie Blaine. Her name sounded mundanely ...
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July 3, 2009
- Who did I want him to be and what were his plans and goals? For me, that was the starting point of characterization and the heart of the story's plot.I knew he was a vampire, and an ex-Templar Knight. In many ways they are opposites and yet synonymous. Both killed without remorse. Both considered their enemies infidels, unworthy of life. Templars were reputedly fearless in battle, loyal to a ...
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