All Them Pretty Vampires

After an endless stream of jabs and jibes at my beautiful wife for loooving the Twilight series and all the pretty vampires, what do I do?

I write a vampire story. [hangs head in shame]

Now, my vampires aren't pretty, so I feel a little better about that aspect, but other than that, I have no excuse. It started off as a flash piece--just to get this one scene out of my head--and blossomed into a 5,000 word hi-tech pursuit of the fangy creeps.



While I have not read the pretty vampire books, I have seen and...[wince] enjoyed the movies. If you haven't checked out the treatment they're given at RiffTrax, you should. Oh, and the same aforementioned beautiful wife has kept me fully informed during her lightning reads of each book. Okay, enough of this. (BTW, in the event Stephenie Meyer stumbles across my little corner of the web here, yes, I am just jealous. More than I can say.)

Breathe. Breathe.

So, the shining light in all this--the one thing that makes it possible for me to rise and face the world--is The Trigger Reflex from Pill Hill Press, freshly edited by Miles Boothe and delivered promptly from your favorite dispenser of fictionally arranged words. Oh, and my story, "Adaptive Strategies," is included in the lineup.

1. Night and Day by Michael McClung 

2. Hunting Vengence by Steven Gepp 

3. Iron Bells by Joshua Reynolds 

4. The Pretty Ones by Angel Propps 

5. The Shomer Express by Edward Erdlac 

6. Rancho Diablo by John Whalen 

7. Blood Red by Thom Brannan. 

8. 'Til the Sun is in the Sky by Rob Pegler. 

9. Alpha by Marc Sorondo 

10. The Enemy Within by Liam Cadey 

11. Adaptive Strategies by William Wood 

12. Gateway by Daniel Durrant 

13. With My Vortex In Hand, I Boldy Go Forward by Medina Falcon 

14. Our Fields by Paul Salvette 

15. Shock to the Corset by T.W.Garland 

16. Bats by Derek Muk 

17. Emergence by Christopher Nadeau 

18. Drawing First Blood by Kevin Walsh 

19. Knocking Then Dead by John X. Grey 

20. Under Construction by Mike Brooks 

21. There's Something in the Woods by Ed Mckeown 

22. Intrepid Dawn by Angela Meadon 

23. Good Hit by Mark Sual 

24. Damned Pretty Woman by Matthew Baugh 

25. Groundhog Day by Phillip Norris 

26. Coward's Run by H.J. Hill 

27. Fallen States by Jason Papke 

28. New Fallen Snow by Miles Boothe