Vampires

Her fangs tore crimson holes in his neck

 

Through blood-slicked lips and crimson eyes, they called to her

 

Pale and drawn, he complained he needed to take “just a little” of my blood

 

The vampire moved slow and sensual, stalking her prey with delight

 

The coffin creaked and a shriveled, corpse-like hand appeared

 

Bats beat the air in a leathery lullaby as the vampire feasted on her soul

 

Her life drained out under his unholy kiss

 

She was even more beautiful in death than in life

 

The horrors of the grave were nothing to her now

 

A blood-red smile crossed his lips, revealing ivory fangs and endless hunger

 

The midnight thirst was upon him

 

The sweet nectar pulsed invitingly behind the blue veins of her throat

 

His throat grew parched at the sight of her pulsing neck

 

The thing shriveled under the wooden stake's relentless assault

 

Unable to enter, the creature paced and growled at the threshold

 

His fangs ached for her throat, to taste the soft flesh and warm blood

 

His fangs nipped playfully at her neck

 

His mouth throbbed with the urgent need of his fangs to feed

 

As soon as his fangs tapped her veins, he knew she was the one

 

She kissed him and felt his fangs prick her probing tongue

 

Her lips curled back in anger, revealing the razor-sharp canines she had kept hidden for so long

 

Sunlight burned him, made him a screaming bonfire that fled into the darkness below

 

And yet no bullet could harm him‌—‌only the stake, the sword, the sun

 

As he fed, the years tumbled away, restoring the vitality of youth

 

There was a cruelty about his eyes and the mouth that betrayed him for the bloodsucker he was

 

The blood-hunger made her quiver with anticipation

 

His fangs traced the delicate hollow of her neck

 

The dark juices of that ivory throat would soon be his to milk

 

The blood was hot and salty upon his tongue and he gulped greedily

 

He would have lived forever had he not fallen in love with her

 

The waxen face drew close, hooded eyes hypnotizing her

 

We were all reflected in the mirror except her

 

A deathly pallor crept over her as she drew the curtains against the dawn

 

A thin red rivulet ran down his neck from where her ruby lips had been

 

He visited her nightly until she was one of us no more, but undead like him

 

The veins in her neck sang to him like no other sound on earth

 

She drew close to him, unaware it was his will she do so

 

His crimson fangs flexed into her throat, drawing blood

 

The wooden stake pierced him, holding him prisoner in his coffin for the morning sun

 

The first gray light of dawn called him to the safety of his tomb

 

The man was sickly pale with a mouth sprouting fangs

 

His eyes burned with a feverish light as he sprang from the grave