A cellphone novel about post-life crisis. ☨ A nebbish Filipino vampire reconsiders his (post-)life choices after a fun but stressful dalliance with a party girl. ☨ RIYL: What We Do In The Shadows, Phonogram, Being Human, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace...
The dancefloor is packed with mopey kids in Byronic hipster drag. They collide like bats in a vacuum to an earnest Bauhaus darkwave remix.
Kill me again. Now.
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II.
Betchay chose to meet here because she thought it would feel natural to someone like me. Ha!
Fangs, Blood-thirst, Sickly pallor, Hyper-metabolism – All of these are just functions of biology.
Heck, even the charm must be some kind of neurogenetic programming. Doubt if anyone like Betchay would be interested in my... "vita-normative" self (as the newly-turned college kids put it).
But all those Goth trappings? Purely a lifestyle choice.
It was just strains of Romani aristocratic culture – one among many that crossed over to the New World – before it was standardized by Hollywood, and codified by lore nerds.
I happened to like dressing in black long before I was sired. The rest might as well be cuneiform to me.
Sure, I know my Orlok from my Vlad Tepes, and I can recognize when a holy symbol poses legitimate risk to me. But that stuff is like the post-vital equivalent of a citizenship test.
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III.
Note to self: Do not start dwelling on the whole nature-of-the-soul issue. Again.
Just because I was a Metaphysics scholar in an era when it mattered does not give me an excuse to lose myself in abstract navel-gazing, or worse: to be an asshole about it.
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