THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
They were screaming, a psychic cacophony of lost identity and endless, gnawing need.
We are the design! they wailed in her mind. We are the product! Feed us!
Cattleya reached the base of the spire, her clothes torn, her silver skin glistening with the black ash of the dead. She grabbed the iron ladder leading to the roof and began to climb, the swarm following her like a tidal wave of shadow.
She reached the top and tore through the glass, emerging into the biting, sub-zero air of the city.
Below, Oakhaven was turning into a slaughterhouse. As the light of the moon hit the snow, she saw the vampires emerging from every doorway, every alley, their shadows stretching out like long, clawed fing