For the life of me I can’t remember what time we would always be expected at my grandmother’s for Christmas Day dinner, but here I was slightly shivering in my Christmas outfit as we rode up the elevator to the 16th floor. It was already dark, but that didn’t mean much, because the sun set at 3pm in Berlin during the winter months and wouldn’t really show its face until summer when it refused to set until after 10pm. The trip from our apartment to my grandmother’s was not long at all. It probably took a total of two minutes maximum, once the elevator decided to show up. I…
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A Vampire Story – Excerpt
… I tossed and turned for a long time before sleep finally found me, but it was soft and peaceful until I woke up early the next morning. I wasn’t sure what had woken me, but the sight that greeted me at my window was worth the short night. Outside snow was gently falling. I smiled, picked up my robe and looked for the tin of cook’s shortbread cookies I had hidden in the dresser and made for the bedroom door. It was a tradition of Isabella and I to wake each other up, should we notice snow falling in the middle of the night. We would sit in the…
