The Emotional Vampire: A Fictional Narrative

“This one was hardly bigger than a garage. The table was cluttered with limp- looking magazines and at one end of it there was a big green glass ashtray full of cigarette butts and cotton wads with little blood spots on them. If she had had anything to do with the running of the place, that would have been emptied every so often. There were no chairs against the wall at the head of the room. It had a rectangular-shaped panel in it that permitted a view of the office where the nurse came and went and the secretary listened to the radio. A plastic fern, in a gold pot sat in the opening and trailed its fronds down almost to the floor. The radio was softly playing gospel music” (O’Connor 3). As the Turpins waited Mrs. Turpin began to describe the other waiting room occupants to pass the time. Mrs. Turpin can be seen as a larger woman who is proud of her means and then there is her husband Claud who can be described as a “florid, bald, sturdy and shorter than Mrs. Turpin (O’Connor 1). Next was an unnamed blonde child whose attire consisted of a dirty blue romper, the boy’s mother was seen “wearing on a yellow sweatshirt and wine- colored slacks, both gritty-looking, and the rims of her lips were stained with snuff. Her dirty yellow hair was tied behind with a little piece of red paper ribbon” (O’Connor 5). The next woman is called the “stylish woman” by

Lila lay on her bed staring at the ceiling thinking over the events of the evening. The more she recalled, the more she was mortified for acting like a love sick, slobbering idiot in front of not only the most beautiful man she’d ever met, but he was her best friends cousin of all things! Lila groaned, burying her head into her pillow. She tried to console herself by thinking she would never see him again. She could avoid him by simply not going back there. It wouldn’t be too difficult to do. She would never have the guts to venture to a club like that on her own. This is exactly the reason that Rachael had taken her there. Lila was trying to convince herself he was charming to all the ladies. He worked at a night club. Of course he would

“You have no idea how bad it is in here. I longed for the day when I can cook you three a big dinner and clean that house. I’m sure it is pretty dirty.” She smiled.

It was the year 1922 and life hadn’t been this good in a while, times had taken a big change for the best. In Manhattan, New York, there were extravagant parties every weekend; the whole city shows up and doesn't leave until they see the sun. There was once this wealthy family living right in the middle of the roaring twenties. There was a mom, a dad, an older sister named Alice, and a younger sister named Anna. Alice loved to go to all of the huge parties, meet new people, and not come home until the morning. Every time Alice would get ready to go out for the night, Anna would watch her get ready as if she was picturing that was herself. Anna looked up at her sister and wanted to do everything she did. Alice had been talking about this party for a long time, and the night

“I don’t think I can do it,” I told her. “I’m not as strong as he was. I give him that journal for his thoughts. I never had any intention of reading that book.”

As she spun around, she pulled him closer and whispered. “There was someone there, watching us.”

“Vampire Academy” by Richelle Mead is the first book in this paranormal romance series. The setting of the books take place in St. Vladimir’s academy. The main characters in the first book are Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir. Three different species of vampires are introduced in the first book which are dhampirs, moroi, and strigoi. Dhampirs like Rose are human-vampires hybrids that live to protect the more fragile moroi. Moroi, like Lissa, are full living vampires that feed on human blood and branch out into royal families. Strigoi are the evil dead that are created from killing a human and will do anything to kill.

We were standing outside the Cotton Club, a speakeasy on 142nd Street. Me, Grace, and Lucy had finished our paper route early and wanted to see what all the racket was. We pushed through the small crowd and up to the window, so close our breath fogged up the glass. Staring in awe, we locked our eyes against the “It Girl.” We couldn’t imagine that standing inside the nightclub was Clara Bow.

I already started on the dessert!" clapped her hands together in excitement. "Apple pie with cinnamon. I just couldn't help myself. I haven't had pie in ages. You get tired of green tea mochi ice cream after a while."

Kresley Cole, Stephanie Meyer, J. R. Ward, Cassandra Clare, Lisa Jane Smith, Spirit Bliss, Claudia Gray, L.J. McDonald, Anne Bishop, Juliet Marillier. Only a few names of those authors, who constitute in a genre, which is one of the biggest phenomena of this decade, especially among young women. Romantic fantasy has become particularly popular with the Twilight books, which were released in 2005. Since then, the vampire-and other supernatural creature-themed fantasy romance novels have been extremely popular all over the world. According to statistics brought out by Romance Writers of America, in 2009, the paranormal subgenre made up 17.16% of the popular romance genre, which in itself 54% of all books sold by the

She tapped her long, glossy fingernails on the wooden table. All around her were cheers, dances, and loud, boisterous voices. The girl couldn’t help but sigh, feeling so hopelessly thoughtful in the dark, cramped dining hall. Prideful men boasted about the room, while their obedient wives quietly conversed amongst themselves.

I have enjoyed many vampire movies over the years, long before they became the popular pop-culture genre they have become due to the success of The Twilight Saga films. One movie I have enjoyed viewing many times since its debut in 1994 is Interview with the Vampire. This film is an adaptation of the book Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice in 1973 and published in 1976. The movie was directed by Neil Jordan who also co-wrote the script with Anne Rice.

Charismatic. Charming. Sensual. Beautiful. Would you ever use these adjectives to describe a vampire? The common theme in portraying vampires in literature has always involved depictions of great violence, ugliness, and fear. Novels involving vampires never portrayed the vampire as a heroic character, but rather as the villain who was then destroyed in the end. Stereotypical vampires terrorized towns, lived in grim, dark, towering castles and turned into bats when in trouble. Authors were simply not inspired to build a tale around the life of a vampire, his shortcomings, his doubts, his fears. Rather, authors used the vampire as a metaphor for evil that resides in humanity.

or pain; the very idea of the vampire is the pure essence of Freud’s theory of Thanatos. Dracula represents the very depth of all of death’s depravities while still retaining the human recognition and resentment for all of the bloodshed that he is responsible for.

The air is filled with a sweet aroma as another female student walks by. The perfume is strong and people choke and turn their heads when she walks past them. The sound of noisy flip flops coming down the hallway alerts the boy and he rises to greet his friend. When standing, he is about six feet tall and seems to be well muscled. His friend was of much the same description, only the friend is slightly less muscled and his eyes are the color of the sky on a clear day. Girls leaning against the walls and sitting in the chairs in the hallway, stare at the two young men exiting the building in which they wait. The young men pay no attention and