Podcast: http://www.zenzebra.net/podcast/i-vampire-part-2.mp3
Captivity and all its synonyms. They are so potent, they almost have a taste. One could say they taste like absinthe, but that would be too easy. The spirit’s captivity is the stuff of mad poets and a person who likes to extract juice from a wormwood tree.
Tinguely pulled out her checkbook and a pen.
Bazila masked her “alpha dog” dominance and feigned submission.
Tinguely laughed ruefully. “Bazila, admit it. It feels good to be a captive. It’s stimulating to plot and scheme our escape. And then, there’s the sweetness of the revenge fantasy. Or, if you’re not in the mood to be a rebel, you can whine about your condition without doing anything.”
“On behalf of the LLC, I would like to thank you most sincerely for your generous donation,” said Bazila.
The donation was satisfying, but ultimately futile, thought Tinguely after she left.
Tinguely would wager all the cash she had in her wallet (which was around $350) that Bazila spent her evenings working on her own teen vampire novel. Would Bazila’s version feature sexual slavery and forced abortions for stem cells?
Tinguely shuddered.
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The taste of freedom is not sweet. It is not sour. It is either woody or metallic. Once you swallow it, you realize you’ve been poisoned.
“It was the best book I ever read,” said the girl at the Dairy Queen, whom Tinguely spotted with a copy of I, Vampire. She appeared to be about 12.
“You were able to read this stuff while eating?” Tinguely was surprised. Was it the same book she had read? Were she and the girl with the book even on the same planet?
“Well, the stuff about embalming fluid was sort of creepy, but I’m not really sure what that is,” said the girl. “I felt sad for Romulus. I mean, he needed blood so soooo badly.”
“”I think I need to be sick,” said Tinguely.
“Oh. The bathroom’s out of order. Don’t go in. You’ll be sorry,” said the young girl.
“Isn’t it against some sort of health ordinance to have an inoperable restroom at an eating establishment?” asked Tinguely.
“It just happened,” said the girl. She picked up her book, put it into her cute Oscar the Grouch “tween” messenger bag.
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A state of grace is the state you’re in when you realize you don’t have to think about the “big issues” – life, death, or whatever it is that troubles that pesky part of the cerebral cortex that reminds you of the irreducibility of consciousness.
Flickering red lights on the horizon indicated the extent of the wind farm. The blinking red lights on the tops of the wind turbines extended to the horizon like beads on a rosary or glittering paternoster lakes seen mile high as flying over the Rocky Mountains directly northwest of here.
Human beings can’t really deal with consciousness. That’s why they invented religion.
It was a good night to curl up with a true crime paperback, or to watch a rerun of a beauty pageant or documentary about the secret life of the domestic house cat.
Captivity and all its synonyms. They are so potent, they almost have a taste. One could say they taste like absinthe, but that would be too easy. The spirit’s captivity is the stuff of mad poets and a person who likes to extract juice from a wormwood tree.
Tinguely pulled out her checkbook and a pen.
Bazila masked her “alpha dog” dominance and feigned submission.
Tinguely laughed ruefully. “Bazila, admit it. It feels good to be a captive. It’s stimulating to plot and scheme our escape. And then, there’s the sweetness of the revenge fantasy. Or, if you’re not in the mood to be a rebel, you can whine about your condition without doing anything.”
“On behalf of the LLC, I would like to thank you most sincerely for your generous donation,” said Bazila.
The donation was satisfying, but ultimately futile, thought Tinguely after she left.
Tinguely would wager all the cash she had in her wallet (which was around $350) that Bazila spent her evenings working on her own teen vampire novel. Would Bazila’s version feature sexual slavery and forced abortions for stem cells?
Tinguely shuddered.
**********************************
The taste of freedom is not sweet. It is not sour. It is either woody or metallic. Once you swallow it, you realize you’ve been poisoned.
“It was the best book I ever read,” said the girl at the Dairy Queen, whom Tinguely spotted with a copy of I, Vampire. She appeared to be about 12.
“You were able to read this stuff while eating?” Tinguely was surprised. Was it the same book she had read? Were she and the girl with the book even on the same planet?
“Well, the stuff about embalming fluid was sort of creepy, but I’m not really sure what that is,” said the girl. “I felt sad for Romulus. I mean, he needed blood so soooo badly.”
“”I think I need to be sick,” said Tinguely.
“Oh. The bathroom’s out of order. Don’t go in. You’ll be sorry,” said the young girl.
“Isn’t it against some sort of health ordinance to have an inoperable restroom at an eating establishment?” asked Tinguely.
“It just happened,” said the girl. She picked up her book, put it into her cute Oscar the Grouch “tween” messenger bag.
**********************************
A state of grace is the state you’re in when you realize you don’t have to think about the “big issues” – life, death, or whatever it is that troubles that pesky part of the cerebral cortex that reminds you of the irreducibility of consciousness.
Flickering red lights on the horizon indicated the extent of the wind farm. The blinking red lights on the tops of the wind turbines extended to the horizon like beads on a rosary or glittering paternoster lakes seen mile high as flying over the Rocky Mountains directly northwest of here.
Human beings can’t really deal with consciousness. That’s why they invented religion.
It was a good night to curl up with a true crime paperback, or to watch a rerun of a beauty pageant or documentary about the secret life of the domestic house cat.
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