BACK ALLEY BATTLE WITH DENTAL EQUIPMENT .... VAMPIRE GET SURPRISED

So we back in that alley. This what it like. Philly row house got bitty backyard...more like place to park trash can than gas grill (but they got them too). Folks set 'em off wit' green, wood, privacy fences. You know...mess a boards nailed up... a flimsy wall. If you dumb 'nuf a walk down a alley ('specially at night) it like a cattle chute. 'Bout as wide as one too. Got cats back there. They screamin' and fornicatin'. It like Gore Vidal's CALIGULA, but for felines. Rat stay way. That good. 

Annie itchin' a fight. She like scrapin' meat off a people. She like rippin' scalp off. Calls it 'toupee-makin'.' Edith say she got box of 'em...all dried out ones.... keep it in her sleepin' place. Play wit' 'em durin' the day.

Mafia boys hate her, 'cause she kill too many a they best fightin' dogs. I told you... I doan know what 'mafia' they from. Ev'rybody got mafia these days. They like Mardi Gras crews where I come from, or Mummer Parade bands up here.... 'cept they doan wear too many feathers.

Little bastid, vampirina gal know she headin' for a confrontation. She smell it. 'Spects that 'gorilla' gone come up after her. 'Spects she gone spin 'round and sublimate herself right through that big, thick body. Vampire can do that, you know... Shred it all up.... Meat grind it real good. She come out the other side, re-solidify herself, spin 'round and watch. Body jus' stand there a little bit. It wanna say somethin', but it can't, 'cause it look like train go through it. You know them Road Runner cartoon? Well, that what it like. She enjoy part where it splash down on cement like chili and cats come runnin' a eat it up.

But that not what happen this time. Gangsta boy got a girl friend. Girl friend work in a teef doctor office. She help him. She help him make ghost pictures a teef. You know...x-ray? So she boost somethin' outta office. Got a apron. Got a big apron. Two a them, actually. Two big, heavy, thick, lead apron..... An' ev'rybody know vampire can't sublimate theyself through lead.... Ask Marianne. Ask that elferina-vampirina gal. She tell you. Almost get herself burnt up 'cause a it.

So one 'gorilla' come up behind...and 'nother 'gorilla' run 'round block to the other end. Come at her boaf way. She not see lead apron at first. Some vampire can smell it, but Annie still too new. She think she gone be able a handle two of 'em. And she could, provided they doan have that weapon.

Annie stand there grinnin' like a demon... grinnin' like that derby hat, eyelash kid in CLOCKWORK ORANGE. She think she gone do it. She 'spects it gone be fun. She all set. She turnin'. Gorilla doan say nothin', jus' press in real close. They quiet. No cursin'... No hollerin'. Folks always yells in alley fights, but this different. 

Then she feel it. It cold. It heavy. She little. She trapped. Gorilla in a back squeeze her 'gainst gorilla in a front.... squeeze her real tight. Wrap it all 'round her. She fightin'. She spittin'. She scratchin'. But it too late. God damn lead suck up ev'rythin'. Suck up her strength. Suck up her courage. 

Gorilla in a back pull out gun. It like a twenty two. Mafia boys likes twenty two's, 'cause bullet not so big. It doan 'splode the skull none... jus' richochet 'round it there scramblin' them brains up. Regular human bean be forever dead. Vampire come back. Vampire heal up..... eventually.

He jam muzzle ' under apron right where she got her head. Then go 'pop-pop-pop.' Load her up real good. Vampirina gal go limp. Them 'mafia' boy jus' wrap her up and tote her off. Ten heartbeat later 'bout 'leven cat come out a lick it all up. Guess night-folk blood taste good to them.

Street empty now. Nobody 'round... not out front.... not in a alley.

An' Annie done got herself 'ketched.'

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ANNIE ALMOST STARTS A WAR BETWEEN THE VAMPIRES AND SOME MAFIA PRINCES

The vapors are curious tonight. It gets that way 'round The Hunters Moon. That means October. It's a marvelous night for a moon dance and all that. Mist stay close to the ground. Sidewalk look dark and clammy. You can see the stars, but they peekin' through thin, night-gown clouds. And it hot, for tenth month a the year anyway. Little gnats bitin' ev'rything. Summer doan wanna die, I guess.... but who does?

Annie gonna sneak out. Edith not here. She still wit' her husband. Think right now they clog dancin', or somethin'. It like that in The Pines. Rotten Bastid what kill little Matilda still screamin'. He gone be doin' that a long time. Some folks gather 'round that shaft an' listen. Then, when it get too much, they stuff it up wit' part of a ole, ripped mattress. Got lots a ripped up mattresses in The Pines. 

Sarah know Annie fixin' a go street runnin'. She doan like it. She like when they go out together.... a little girl and her real nice step mother. But sometime even she need a rest. Tomas went to  go see Blackie and Minnie. Doan mix too much wit' them. Minnie most stay up by Arch Street. Used a do real mean pastie dance at The Trocadero. Tassels like propellers, that girl got. Doctor say she got be careful or she gone do somethin' a her Cooper ligament. That the one holds up a boobie. After she pick up 'the burden' (became a vampire) she still do it. Sometime fella in a audience say - Damn, why she still here? Ain't you got no different ass for us to see?....... So boss man start stickin' wigs on top a her head. But that doan work too good, 'cause dancin' still the same. She take it real good when boss man fire her. 'Stead a killin' him, she jus' suck all the blood outta his legs. Shrivel them up real good. You can do it wit' a real tight belt like them smack whores use and all. He in a wheel chair (Minnie buy it for him), but least he still breathin'. (dead now, but you know what I mean).

Blackie mostly run 'round pass Thirtieth Street. He like University City. He like college girl.... Always did. They think he cute, like James Dean or that guy what played Michael the Archangel, who was in Grease.... Guy was in Grease, not Michael the Archangel. Seen him once wit' Lana Turner. He doan know me, but we did lock eyes. You know Lana Turner dead and she STILL smoke? Damn. some people never learn. 

Tomas go see 'em ev'ry once in a while, jus' to make sure things is still all honky-dory. Sometime he give 'em thing, like diamond rings or Rolex watches. Once he give 'em title to a new Mercedes. Tomas real free wit' shit that way. 'Nother time I see him give two hundred thousand dollah to crazy, old lady. She so happy. Go dancin' 'round, slide right off a platform on a the track. Subway train fixin' a make chutney outta her, but two kid from Fishtown (neighborhood along northern ramparts of Center City) pull her out. Know what she do? Send all her daughter to toenail fixin' school. Then she buy a salon. Now she take Zumba lesson three day a week. Hey, it a free country.

Look, look, look.... Annie walkin' pass them Do-Wop sons a bitches. She hate them and they hate her. Oh, they know she little bastid, vampirina. They ain't scared a that, 'cause they mafia. I do not know if it is the real mafia or the artificial mafia. But it look pretty genuine to me. Don't sell smack no more. Just kill folks over money. Things is more respectable that way. They singin'. They sing ev'ry night. It October, but it still little bit hot. Air conditioners goin'. Them what ain't got air conditioner makin' do wit' fans. Seen 'em kill a guy wit' fan once. It a old time 'G.E.' wit' a stiff, wire cage. Mafia guy (or artificial mafia guy) break off the cage, leavin' what look like a 'lectric outboard motor. It not slice through them bones, but rest a him go shootin' off like flyin' salami. 

Annie kill their dog last mumph. It a big, ole, rock hard Pit.... or it was. She jump the fence and pull a leg off. That make dog very angry. You know how pit-bull get?  It wanna go for her throat, but she doan wanna let it. She jump on the back and start kickin' her heels up in it balls. Then, when dog start a cry and all, she lean over and bite it in a neck. Not the throat... the neck, where them bones be. Say she like that crunchy noise. South Philly row house got little yard, like a jail cell, what ain't got no sky. No, 'roof,' I mean. And when she done it all red, just like sloppy paint job. 

Them mafia princes fixin' a do somethin' a her. Oh, they do know how strong she is, but they gorilla too. 'Sides one a them got a evil eye. 

Conrad, her forty year old (but less'n one as a vampire)son, doan wanna get involved. He home. He watchin' ole Jack Benny reruns on Antenna TV. An' Sarah readin' a book. Think it called SHE BECOMES YOU by Odessa Tomes, real, southern evil, cut 'em up stuff. Got it off a smashwords. That on a computer.

See? Mister Never-You-Mind know.

Annie gone down dark alley..... Two gorilla guy gone follow.

Know how it get real quiet right 'fore somethin' gone happen?

Shhh... that how it is now...

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THE VAMPIRES RETURN TO THE CITY AND THE ALTERED TOWNHOUSE...TOMAS FEEDS

They came back from the Pine Barrens. Tomas called a 'familiar' who has a limo service that ferries first-level-high-rollers from Philadelphia to Atlantic City. Had him send over two, regular, black, Lincoln Town Cars so they could ride in comfort. I do not know who sat where and who went in what car, but they got back. Had to make a stop at some Target store that was still open 'cause Annie threw a royal fit for some Honey Boo-Boo shit and wilkravitz had a run in to find it for her. Lunch kit, I think it was. Like that little bastid gonna go to school. Prob'ly eat all the kids in second grade 'fore the tatter tots is done. Say she gonna keep ice cream and frozen yogurt in it. I told you how she eats them... rice puddin' too. Likes the taste and the texture, even if she gotta throw it all up right after.  Ever see them disgustin' sons a bitches what gargle the wine and then spit it out? Well, what she do somethin' like that, only little bit more sick'nin'.... to me, anyway. 

Conrad and Leo ran upstairs. Wanna see how it all came out. Conrad did have to give up a walk-in closet. But 'Mike'...he the contractor, give him a whole lot a built in shelves for all his crappy books and little shitty stuff. He say he a collector. I say he jus' a asshole. Mike (the contractor) is like a 'familiar'... not 'xactly, but close enough to know they vampire. He say Dracula prob'ly turnin' in his grave, he know he got grandkids like this. Tomas jus' give him a look. He hate when human beans make Dracula jokes. Dracula like a cliche to them. Like a head waiter, but wit' a little pervert in him. 

Tomas gotta feed. He say it a lady-dinner this time. And funny thing is she ain't so bad. Yell at her mama ev'ry once in a while. Don't seperate recycle shit from regular crap all a time. Stuff like that. But he had a dream. He had a vision. Happen like that sometimes. Guess it jus' mean her time is up.  Who know? Maybe she pray for it. Retired from a library. That what he say. Cat dead. Mama dead. Plants dead. Now she wanna be dead. He jus' gone help her. Won't hurt her none. An' maybe he gone tickle her a little too. She like that part. 

He fix himself up real nice. Got them trim, fancy, leather bootkins. I hate that word, but it a thing wit' him. Put on nice pants. They jeans, but new ones and real black.... brand new...ain't been washed. Slip into a creamy, white, cotton dress shirt. Mister Never-You-Mind got shirts like that, back before they barbecued me up. Fix his long hair so it hang down all wavy-like. Then he talk Spanish to the mirror. How folks think vampire got no reflection I never know, 'cause they love their reflection. I bet he wanna kiss it. Prob'ly do every once in a while.

Sarah say - Where you goin'? ...... He say - I tol' you. I gonna go kill an ol' white lady........ He white too. But give her a full description so she can keep it straight in her mind. Vampires is real fastidious that way. He claim his journal books got name a ev'ry human bean he done drunk up. I can't read it, 'cause it in all kind a crazy languages. Do know a little French and Spanish from New Orleans, though. But jus' a little. Aramaic and Hebrew part look like whole lot a varicose veins to me.

Now he walk down a street whistlin'. Got hisself a new song. Still like 'Teddy Bears' Picnic,' but new one his 'for now' favorite. It from nineteen twenties and thirties.... 'Have You Ever Seen A Dream Walking? Well I Did'..... That how it go..... Guess he think he the dream. 

Doorman let him go right through. You know how it go. He give him the vampire 'fish-eye.' You ought a see Annie do it when she want milkshake from fat girl at McDonalds. Then he ride up, walk down a hall. It real quiet. Got thick rugs and everythin'. Little dog pee on it, it get suck right in. But they mus' clean it up a whole lot, 'cause it doan smell none. And this like yappy-dog heaven in here. 

Tomas sublimate through the door. She watchin' television... some ol' movie. I think it Jezebel or something. Bette Davis like a thing wit' this one. Got on a baff robe, wit' like a night gown. But no brassiere. I can see that. 

He kneel down behind the chair. She doan even do nothin' and she know he right there. Then he lean forward and French kiss her neck. Go down 'long her shoulder too. Robe loose. He jus' push it away..... She moan. She go - What your name?..... He whisper - me llamo Tomas..... But he say it real Spanish-like. He go TOE-MASS. She like that. Then he reach down in front an' untie the belt. She gasp like ol' lady do.... Go 'wheee!'...like little mouse. He step round in front... stick his arms under robe and lift her up.... She jus' lean 'gainst him and do nothin'. Then he carry her in a bathroom..... pull night gown up over her head. This part actually not too 'romantic,' 'cause she gotta sit all naked on a toilet while he run the water. Gonna give her a baff. Gonna give her a nice, long, real warm baff. Wash her all over. Wash her real good. Tomas like a good baff. Used to take 'em wit' Sylvia and Aura. They mole-people-gals. You can Google 'Vampire Wonderland ... Sylvia and Aura by Billy Kravitz... (that how computer got it) if you wanna know. He gone wash her kitty-cat parts extra special. He gone take off his shirt... maybe all the rest. Who know? This a big thing for her. This her Happy Death Day party. 

After tickle part all done, he gone kiss her all up her neck again. She go - Oh. She go- Ah. Then he break the skin. He real gentle, so it no big thing. 'Bout three hundred fifty heartbeat later she all gone. Blue fire come up. Cremate her real good. Nothin' else burn, though. Jus' her. That vampire magic. you know. He run the water... clean up all the ashes. She got spray under the sink. So that part gone be easy. Then he close the door and go downstairs. Doorman go 'Nighty-night,' when he leave. Tomas walk out, go back home, set in the kitchen and have a little vodka.

Such is life.... in PHILADELPHIA AFTER DARK.

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SLIDE 'EM DOWN THE CHUTE.. like being buried alive!

They found Matilda's killer. Bear trap got him. Just some guy lookin' for meat. Don't know how he got the money for them arrows when he ain't got none for tuna fish. Steel tipped shafts cost plenty. But he was yankin' 'em out and re-usin' 'em, so maybe that help? 

Actually, was a Jersey Devil what find him. Leg almost all torn off. Green-head flies big as jumbo lima beans tearin' off squiggles a flesh. He scream like a crazy man 'fore he even see that Jersey Devil thing. But when he do he start cryin' - NO! NO! NO!..... J.D. say - Shut up, you rotten bastid. How come you kill that little girl?! Why you do it!? Why you do it!?

Rotten bastid say - Doan touch me, you demon, you!HELP! HELP! HELP!..... But all that do is let two green-heads fly down his throat. So he coughin' and chokin' and spittin'..... J.D. hefts him up and totes him through the woods. Thick part. Got thorns and plants and bugs and everythin'. Got ticks what look like watermelon seeds.... BIG watermelon seeds. Jersey Devil had a smash his face some jus' so'd he get some rest. You know, jus' cause fella gone be brutally tortured don't mean he gotta suffer unnecessarily. Folks 'round here IS human, you know.... Mostly, anyway. 

Drop him down right outside a that Red Paint house. Daddy-man come out, take one look and say - This the one what done it?..... Jersey Devil nod. Moe-Larry-Curly wanna bite him up real bad, wanna bite up his private property, or whatever you call it. Mister Never-You-Mind been disembodied spirit long time and I do tend to forget the terminology. 

'Bout then other folks gather 'round. Mama-woman start cryin'. She go - Give me back my little girl! Give me back my little girl!... Rotten bastid say - She witch! She demon. I seed her do it! I seed her do it! I seed her fly.... Daddy-man say - You mean like dis?.... An' he rise up in a air and come down real hard right in a middle a Rotten bastid's chest. You know that flat bone what human beans got there?.... It cracked. I heared it. They all heared it. 

Edith come runnin' over from her place. Vampires right behind her. It jus' 'bout purple sky time, so they can be outside and all without burnin' up none. Men folks wanna truss him up and sink him in the pond. Got the breathin' tube all ready. Got the 'duck' tape all ready. Seen 'em put six, big snappers down there. Four like a store-bought hassock, or an ottoman. Malfs like what a gargoyle got. Big... real big. Prob'ly tear off chunks like two pound canned ham. An' it dark down there, so he not gonna see it comin'.

That when Mama-woman speak up. She quiet. She still...like a queen, or maybe like a soldier's wife. She say - I do not want it a be so quick. I do not want it a be easy. 

And them what live in The Pines know 'xactly what she mean. Some a the lady-folk go over, stand by her and start whisperin'. Most a them is God fearin' in they own peculiar way. Rotten bastid know he in a real bad kind a trouble. Badder'n jus' dyin' trouble. This somethin' worse. He start cryin'. He start bashin' his head 'gainst a tree. Blood all drippin'. He start cursin'. Say - I got family! I got friends! They kill you! They kill you! They kill you!... Red Paint man, not the Talk-To-God Man, but like one a his back-up singers, take a vinegar bottle fill a acid and pour it all over his head. Rotten bastid's head, I mean. It not truly powerful acid. Think they use it a cure hides. But still, wit' the blood and all, it gotta sting some. Rotten bastid  thrash all around like a fit-taken man. Two women go over and kick him a little. And you know what they aim for. Stopped all that thrashin'. That's for sure. Curl him up jus' like a baby. Jus' like a baby what waitin' a be born. 

That when they throw blanket over him, wrap him up and drag him to the chute. Folks get all excited. Start whoopin' and clappin'. Chute killin' put on a real good show. 

Don't nobody know how it got there. Some say it part of a old mine, like a air shaft or somethin'. But it might a been there since The Book a Genesis. Who knows. 'Bout two and a half feet across... round... smooth. Open up near where Talk-To-God Man live. Slide down at maybe sixty degree angle. I know them terms 'cause my great uncle pickled dead folks and that a technical callin'. He knowed everythin'. Then, maybe two hundred foot down it stop. But them what get tossed fall little bit more. Fifteen feet, from what I hear, down into sof' wet mud. Can't climb out. Jus' gotta lay there. No food. Jus' mud bugs. Human bean live long time on mud bugs. Doan know how big a chamber it is. Disembodied spirits what got throwed down there never tell me. 

Gone be free show in The Pines ev'ry night now. Ev'ry day too. Rotten bastid gonna scream...gonna beg... gonna curse... gonna cry. Talk-To-God Man say last fella what got throwed live ten months. Some say he live longer, only ain't got strength to yell no more.

They gone be takin' bets.

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TEENAGE MUTANT KILLER TURTLES

This is wilkravitz. none of the disembodied spirits are around. Think they're at a dead folks party in Atlantic City. Nucky Johnson gives 'em. His name ain't Thompson. That's only fiction for TV. I told  you how the ninth floor of the Ritz Condominiums is crazy with ghosts, because that's where the real life Steve Busemi (forgive spelling) held court. None of the people who live there now mind much. It only adds to the luster of the place. And every once in a while they find mysterious, vaguely 1920-ish, shadows permanently tattooed on the walls. Nothing gets 'em out. Gotta paper right over 'em.

Mister Never-You-Mind is there. Them's his kinda people. But I do not know where Zebulon and Johannan actually are. I don't care. My neck hurts, but I'll give you a few minutes. I'll fill you in. 

Trapper guys went out to look for big ones.... Alligator snapping turtles, I mean. Some streams got 'em. Some streams don't. These guys are mostly just plain humans, but they know where to find 'em. I've seen carapaces (shells) over three feet long. Piney people say they can bring down a deer, even a black bear, long as it ain't over four hundred pounds.

Red Paint folks stock ponds with 'em.... killin' ponds. Them things got heads like you would not believe. Picture a big, old Pit Bull, reptile eagle. Got them little dragon spines gone up the neck too. Don't know if they continue inside the shell, but they do reappear on the big, fat tail.

Mister Edith say them beaks can tear out a chunk big as three cans of tuna fish, if you like stack 'em up one can on top a the other. Annie say she want a see that. She go - Please!? Please!? Please!?.... Tomas doan answer, but they probably gone stay for a little bit more. Conrad anxious to go home and see what the contractors done to his room, but hr not like to travel by hisself.

Matilda's ghost come back. Say she want a Dr. Pepper. Mama-Woman say - You can't drink that no more, little girl. You mostly dead now.... So they get her soda sale advertisements from the Shop-Rite over in Egg Harbor City, 'cause that mus' be almost as good..... Matilda don't say nothin', so they guess it all right. 

Few Red Paint fellas been settin' bear traps in the woods. Figure archer bastid might step in one. Then all they gotta do is wait for mornin' and see where vultures is circlin'. Pines got a whole lot a vultures...big ones.... Turkey vultures, I think they is. Look like teen age condors, if you ask me..... Best ass meat eaters supposed a be teen aged too. Them turtles, I mean. Nobody know why they growed so big. Folks say it shitty stuff from back in the day when they used to have iron foundries 'round here. But them was itty-bitty foundries. And that was over hundred years ago. Must a been real strong shitty stuff if it still doin' that today.... People say they gonna get government to clean up all that shitty stuff. And government say they gonna. But they never do..... I try to be healthy, so you know how much I hate shitty stuff.

Edith say she think they catched somebody. Don't see it. It jus' in her brain. And from the way that Moe-Larry-Curly dog be howlin', she jus' may be right. 

Now, I gotta stop, 'cause my neck hurtin' too bad.

So y'all gonna have to 'scuss this 'mongst yourselves.

Good night..... I think like a spider must a bit me.

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Billy Kravitz' vampire wonderland: EDITH 'FORESEES' A VAMPIRIC VISITOR

I THINK ZEBULON'S BEEN SUBLIMATING THROUGH THE ETHERS OF MISTER NEVER-YOU-MIND a little too much... Disembodied spirits do that sometimes... Good post from two and a half months ago... Go see..  then just GOOGLE~~ VAMPIRE WONDERLAND by Billy Kravitz,  for many portals into this world... Billy Kravitz' vampire wonderland: EDITH 'FORESEES' A VAMPIRIC VISITOR: Annie was playin' with her BARBIE'S DREAM HOUSE. Looked like a crib for little, plastic whores, the way she had it all done up. She still w...

ANOTHER VAMPIRIC SOUL FROM ANOTHER PLACE

The Pines are in an uproar. Red Paint People, usually stoic, thirst for revenge. Matilda was special, groomed for spiritual duties and destined to become a Talk-To-God Woman. She stems from a line known to those on Lemuria and other long gone places too. Her Daddy-Man has a relic, the false teeth of the last Lemurian 'Strong Man' (ruler), given to his forebear straight off the glistening gums of the dying royal. Sometimes she played 'Cheshire Cat' with them, but only when her 'big folk' wern't around.

Now the vampires don't want to get involved in all this. Pine folks are more than capable on their own. The contractor's finished. The townhouse is ready. Conrad and Leo can go 'share-sies' now. Edith wants Mister Edith to shuffle off with 'em, but he can't make up his mind, so she ask Sarah for two or three blood vials, 'case he get hurt. You know  how generous Sarah is with them, little, glass, blood vials. Tomas left a few too, but he antsy. Wanna go back and pick up some new fall stuff from a l'il man-boutique runnin' 'round over on Walnut Street. Think they got some leather jackets he been lookin' at.

Edith say - They pushin' in on us. Plain-Folk (non-Pineys) wanna kill this place. Wanna put up all-you-can-eat joints and paint-your-toe-nail-parlors....... That make her sad. That make anybody sad, what got sense. Can't go 'round killin' magic, else alls you gonna have is bricks and paint.

But that big, jolly, round, ole governor they got bouncin'up an' down in Trenton, like Pineys. Maybe he like the trees more'n the people, but they doan care. Jus' so the 'plain' world stay away. Sky gotta be safe for Jersey Devil, you know. 'Sides, we already got the Snatch & Grab. How many store we need?

Red Paints fixin' up a killin' pond. They got two of 'em. One for the lady-folk and one for the gents. No reason. That jus' how they does it. Look like regular swimmin' hole... jus' like a plain, ole skinny dip place. Only killin' ponds is different. Folks cry long time 'fore goin' 'guhk' in one a them. Got somthin' special paddlin' 'round...somethin' mean...and dark... and hungry. Who knows, maybe more'n one. Tie a body up. That is after daintily peelin' off all the clothes. Never know what you might wanna save. Throw 'em in and wait for the party to start jumpin'. Know what they does? They  shove rubber hose in a malf a the victim an' duct tape it in place. Like a long, snaky snorkel what don't come out. Hose real long...maybe twenty feet...maybe thirty...maybe forty. Tied-up bastid lay down there in the mud... in the dark... jus' waitin'. You know, them what does it ain't hungry all the time...mostly, but not always.

Annie want a stay and see, but Sarah and Tomas doan wanna let her. Say she all twisted up inside as it is. So she ask if it OK for her to kill one a the actors in some big, ole, derelict, haunted prison thing they got goin' in Philadelphia. You know, like for Halloween and all. Tomas say he think about it, dependin' on how bad an actor them 'zombies' is. But you know he ain't gonna let her. 

Leo wanna get back to the city too. Sure it mean he gotta put some pants on. But he willin' a sacrifice comfort for vittles. That boy doan hold wit' no 'one nasty victim a month' deal. That boy like a vampire smorgasbord if you ask me. Baylah say he gone be trouble. Maybe Doctor Franklin gotta lock him up or somethin'?

Tomas do like The Pines, though. Say it feel right this time a year, 'cause it The Festival of Tabernacles an all. That the Biblical Thanksgivin', when old time Hebrews camp out in, uh, pergolas, I guess you call 'em. Only wit' lots a sweet smellin' pine boughs on the roof. Doan know where they find pine boughs in the desert. Think God give it to 'em. Maybe I ask somebody next time I get up heaven way....

An' that 'archer' still out there, 'cause next night Miss Mitzi Gaynor, she the next door neighbor dog, come home wit' a shaft in her rump. But that they were able to fix. She limp a little, but at least she live.

Vampires gonna give it 'nother night or so. Tomas get a breath in his piney air....Annie maybe see a big, ole killin' show. That way everybody happy.

Autumn in The Pines is jus' scrumptious...

Oh, and 'bout that other vampiric soul from 'nother place.... Well, he jus' ain't showed up yet... Vampire doan follow no time-table, you know...

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