Flesheaters and Bloodsuckers Anonymous

By HC Hammond
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Published: Dec. 03, 2012
Words: 80,616 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301631018

Short description

A vampire in a world where creatures of the night are second-class citizens is forced to enter rehab therapy to spy on its founder. These creatures are actually Infecteds, people unfortunate enough to catch a life-changing virus called, Abeos. Infecteds are mysteriously disappearing after graduation from a group therapy program designed to help them heal. Unable to figure out where these unwante

Extended description

Harold spent a lot of time thinking about blood. Its alluring warmth and coppery flavor were manna, a precious resource, hard to procure, but so, so worth the effort. He spent many hours of his life considering the substance. What drew him to it. How he could get at it. How he could avoid it and why he deserved the torment of that downright, blood-red, dirty, sloppy substance. Mostly at this moment, as he sat in one of many titanium white holding cells in the Columbus police metropolitan complex, he spent time ruminating on how his need for it kept getting him into trouble, more of it lately than usual.

As far as the myth of vampires went, Harold could admit he didn’t measure up. He wasn’t mysterious or menacing or all that sexy. Just about the only things that got him laid were the reputation associated with vampires and the hypnotic ability it afforded him. Even that stopped now that Maria was in the picture.

And now for the first time in nearly eighty years, he’d been cau.. (Read more) Harold spent a lot of time thinking about blood. Its alluring warmth and coppery flavor were manna, a precious resource, hard to procure, but so, so worth the effort. He spent many hours of his life considering the substance. What drew him to it. How he could get at it. How he could avoid it and why he deserved the torment of that downright, blood-red, dirty, sloppy substance. Mostly at this moment, as he sat in one of many titanium white holding cells in the Columbus police metropolitan complex, he spent time ruminating on how his need for it kept getting him into trouble, more of it lately than usual.

As far as the myth of vampires went, Harold could admit he didn’t measure up. He wasn’t mysterious or menacing or all that sexy. Just about the only things that got him laid were the reputation associated with vampires and the hypnotic ability it afforded him. Even that stopped now that Maria was in the picture.

And now for the first time in nearly eighty years, he’d been caught trying to get a good meal, by the law. Harold could practically smell a future filled with burning flesh.

They threw him in the slammer for charges of attempted murder, it was really only attempting to get a good meal on his thin frame. He doubted the judge would see it that way. Even in this modern, enlightened age, those infected with Human Abeoviridae didn’t get the same fair shake as everyone else. He nibbled on his fingertips as he thought, nipping on each one in turn and sucking on the flesh just enough to draw a drop of blood before moving on to the next.

Vamps didn’t do well in prisons. The guards kept to a diurnal schedule. First day in yard and Harold would turn into so much barbeque. Maria would miss him and weep salty tears over his urn ensconced ashes at a state paid funeral, but he’d still be ubër dead. Dust to dust and ashes to ashes.

Shit, shit, shit. Harold jumped from the bench to pace the room, counting the footsteps heel to toe, one, two, three, and four. His shit seriously hit the fan this time, five, six. No way, he’d be able to go back to his life and no way to survive going to jail, seven, eight, nine. Harold might actually have to skip town and start fresh, ten, eleven, twelve, something he’d avoided all these years, thirteen, fourteen. He didn’t want to leave, fifteen steps to cross the room, no bigger than his bedroom. The vampire turned ninety degrees and started walking. This city was his home, his first home, one of the last connections to, well, before, two, three, four.

He made it a point to be extra careful where he fed, five, when he fed, rotating through random, six, seven, eight, neighborhoods of the city on a regular basis, nine, steering clear of other infected’s territory. Only nine steps before his red flyers bumped the wall, practically claustrophobic in here.

The cops just got lucky, although having Tasers to take him down didn’t hurt either. His chest still stung from the prongs. If he could actually fly, Harold received enough juice to make it to Los Angeles and back.

Everywhere this past year, Harold encountered police cruisers. It took more effort to sneak around at night. He’d been avoiding “eating out” and taking from the blood bank at work, increasing the risk of getting caught fang deep in a pint.
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fbi, vampire, blood, murder mystery, prison, police, conspiracy, detective, zombie, werewolf, witch, shapeshifter, alien, vampire hunter, car, gambling, night, ohio, columbus, hunt, ogres, noire, bloodsucker, halfway house, flesheater, blood bank, monster hunter, group therapy

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