Friday, April 2, 2010

Excerpts From "The Sexiest Vampire"


“Please,” said Maria. “I’m not asking you to give up your family. I’m asking you to love me.”

Dylan’s eyes stood on hers unflinching. Through her hand, he felt something virgin, something new. That rare and exhilarating feeling of going somewhere you don’t know—of watching something that you don’t quite understand.

Looking into her eyes, Maria was at a dramatic precipice. Dylan wanted to pull her back. He wanted to pull her into his arms and reassure her, protect her. But the feeling was so new, so powerful and so foreign that he balked at the idea. Is this love? he thought. Is this it?

These are the moments, the decisions, which will not be forgotten, for good or for ill. Strangely, Dylan recognized this. And as he walked away from Maria, as he saw that rare, anxious energy deflating, he held his head a little higher.

Dylan knew that it wasn’t love. No, Dylan knew that this strange feeling was not a real love for Maria, but rather a severe case of diarrhea.

Dylan hoped the kids would turn out all right. Then he started running, because it was really severe diarrhea.

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