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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
- 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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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 12, 2009
- There's a scene in the Showtime series Californication where the main character, an author of some success played by David Duchovny of X-Files fame, is in the mansion of a rock star, surrounded by sex, drugs, naked girls, booze, loud music and the usual x-rated trappings, while he's talking to a beautiful woman about the books he's written. There's a similar scene in the movie Almost Famous, a ...
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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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June 27, 2009
- When I began writing the story Templar‘s Fire, a Gothic Vampire novel (http://www.scribd.com/doc/16391295/Templars-Fire-A-Gothic-Vampire-Novel), I started with an image that stuck in my head. I kept seeing this eerie looking guy hiding behind a stone altar peering around the corner as if he was waiting to attack someone. Didn’t know why, but the picture stayed with me.Since my interests at ...
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June 12, 2009
- Quiet footfalls traced a path up the steps from the downstairs sitting room, along the abbreviated hallway, and into the Vicar's bedroom. The nearer to the bed they got, the more softly they fell.Slowly becoming aware of the intruder, he struggled to gather the remnants of his composure. He felt movement on his bed. The vicar sat up violently, tears still wetting his face. He fumbled for the ...
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June 10, 2009
- We never know when to expect them, if they'll haunt, hinder or aid us, but memories from combat never disappear. * * *The fire still blazed, but standing directly before the hearth was insufficient to warm me. Again, I rubbed my hands on the seams of my blue jeans, but that wasn’t enough to get the feel of her off my flesh. After washing up, I changed into clean clothes.Stella waited by the ...
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