Saony and I love horror movies. So one day, during a weekly meet-up, we decided to write a Generation F–inspired horror fiction prompt—a piece of writing that would explore feminine power and sexuality. These were our results.
Tanya awakes with a start. Her blond hair cascades over her sore and sweaty body as she looks at her phone, which reads 3:03 a.m. A strange man’s arm hugs her waist close to his chest. “Who the hell is that?” She gazes at his pale, white skin, perplexed.
This wasn’t like her. Tanya did not have one-night stands. Tanya did not get drunk. She was pragmatic. She was disciplined. She was a law student, after all.
She gets up and stumbles to the bathroom, “Oh Christ,” she quietly roars, she’d stubbed her right toe on a heavy textbook. “I must still be drunk,” she whispers.
In the bathroom her red eyes looked back at her. Hauntingly. Odd, she thinks. Is that a bite mark on my neck? She peers back into her bedroom, where the strange man rolls over to one side and drags a cigarette from a pack of Marlboro Reds on the nightstand.
With a switch to the left, the shower faucet turns on and out comes steamy, hot water. She jumps in and puts her face under the faucet, letting the water wash off her mascara and her eyeliner and “What on earth?” She looks to her ankle and sees a fresh tattoo of a vampire bat staring back at her. “Impossible . . . it can’t be . . .”
Suddenly the shower door slides open and the strange man stares back at her, cigarette dangling from his fangs . . . his fangs . . .
“It can’t be,” she says.
“Move over, babe, let me get a chance with the hot water.” She catches sight of her reflection in the shower door—a pair of matching fangs stare back at her.
“It just can’t be.”
He winks at her.
“You look pretty without makeup, Tanya. I like you this way.”
“It can’t be.”
“Let’s go hunt after this, what do you say?” He kisses her on the cheek.
She looks at him, at his fangs, at the tattoo on her ankle. “I am never drinking margaritas again,” she declares, decisively, and turns off the shower.