Every month, a group of immortals gets together to perform a very special ritual. A game, if you will, with three very simple stages:
Screw.
Marry.
Kill.
They have one lunar cycle to seduce, wed, and kill their mark and finish the game.
Zeke has been a faithful member of the group for years, and has lived the existence of an unchanging vampire since the age of the Messiah. In all that time, personal emotions have never gotten in the way of his feeding, and the ritual provides a perfected way to feed—enrich the victim’s blood with the emotion of love, and you don’t have to feed again for months.
When this month’s mark is a beautiful girl with a dark secret, though, Zeke finds himself on the wrong side of a dangerous arrangement. Failing to complete the ritual results in death. But he can’t kill the woman he loves.
And everything rests upon finishing the game.
Warning: This short story comes packed with emotions. Hate ‘em or love ‘em, you will feel for these characters.
Age range: 18+
Every month, a group of immortals gets together to perform a very special ritual. A game, if you will, with three very simple stages:
Screw.
Marry.
Kill.
They have one lunar cycle to seduce, wed, and kill their mark and finish the game.
Zeke has been a faithful member of the group for years, and has lived the existence of an unchanging vampire since the age of the Messiah. In all that time, personal emotions have never gotten in the way of his feeding, and the ritual provides a perfected way to feed—enrich the victim’s blood with the emotion of love, and you don’t have to feed again for months.
When this month’s mark is a beautiful girl with a dark secret, though, Zeke finds himself on the wrong side of a dangerous arrangement. Failing to complete the ritual results in death. But he can’t kill the woman he loves.
And everything rests upon finishing the game.
Warning: This short story comes packed with emotions. Hate ‘em or love ‘em, you will feel for these characters.
Age range: 18+