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Modus Operando
by Marge Simon
On this night, you are out for an evening stroll when suddenly you find yourself standing in the foyer of a strange building. There’s a stairway upstairs to the third floor. At the landing midway, there is a window that opens out above a courtyard. A vampire is waiting for you on the landing, but you don’t notice it until it grabs you around the waist. Its hands are scaley, with long sharp fingernails that press so hard you hear a rib crack. You barely feel its fangs sink into your jugular. When it is sated, it hurls you through the window which shatters, glass splinters striking your eyes. By the time you hit the tiles below and expire, you are totally blind. You couldn’t identify the vampire even if it had allowed you to live, but of course no self-respecting vampire would ever make such a mistake.
Fiction © Copyright Marge Simon
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A terrific story.
There’s something so mesmerising here – dreamlike – a nightmare – bravo!