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October 30th, 2009

Samhain has been canceled; no one’s seen the druids all week. The ghosts of Sacrificed Anonymous have taken their revenge. I’m so screwed.

Darling, you may have summoned me, but you can’t possibly hope to control me. Now where’s the orphanage? I’m famished.

Mossimo lived in torment more than any other vampire. Bloodlust could be sated. His lust for garlic could not.

After she died, she asked: “Is that it?” He then realised, too late, that even the gift of immortality was not enough for her.