Children of the Night, You're Grounded: Vampire Primes Short Story by Susan Sizemore

Author:Susan Sizemore
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Vampires, Short Stories, Horror, 90 Minutes (44-64 Pages), Paranormal, Romance, New Adult & College, Ghosts, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: ROE Publishing
Published: 2014-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

SDPES stood for San Diego Paranormal Exploration Squad. Or Society. Laurent wasn't sure which was correct. The group was known locally as The Squad, and people made Ghostbusters references about them. What they were was a group of five or six guys whose hobby was trying to prove that ghosts didn't really exist. Except that they kept finding evidence that paranormal phenomena was real. At least they didn't go looking for vampires or werefolk or anything more tangible than disembodied spirits. Laurent didn't find this mortal activity any odder than, say, bowling leagues or Three Stooges conventions.

He'd met some members of the Squad on his own nighttime rovings around the city and was glad to help them when they came to him with a problem they didn't want the media to get hold of. Being a private investigator, he investigated it for them, privately.

He sat in a booth across from Brian January, the man in charge of the ghost hunters. It was a busy lunch hour at the diner near the hardware store Brian owned. Brian was a bit of a local celebrity, but this was a place where no one paid much attention to him. He was a big, red-haired guy, balding, with a bit of a paunch.

The mortal had a caesar salad in front of him. Laurent worked with gusto on a meatloaf sandwich and a huge mound of fries. It was nice not having to worry about cholesterol and all those mortal diseases. Then again, mortals didn't have to worry about exploding into a fireball in bright sunlight should the daylight drug medicine suddenly stop working.

They ate in silence. Laurent waited until he finished the last ketchup slathered fry on his plate before he said, "Good news or bad news first?"

Brian put down his fork. "Good."

"I found out that your colleague Dean isn't actually missing. He wasn't kidnapped by a ghost."

"I know that. Ghosts don't kidnap people, or hold them for ransom or anything fun like that. Where is he?"

"He is, in fact, on a month long cruise with his wife."

Brian did not look as if this was good news. "Dean can't afford something like that."

"Yes. Well. That's where the bad news comes in." Laurent waited for the waitress to pour him a fresh cup of coffee before he continued. "Dean pawned all your missing equipment to pay for the cruise."

Brian looked disappointed, but not surprised. "And the van?"

"Found it on a not so reputable used car lot. Do you want me to turn this info over to the police?"

Brian looked into his bowl as though asking the advice of what was left of his salad. Finally, he sighed and looked at Laurent. "I don't want to get Dean into trouble. I don't want bad publicity for the group, either," he admitted.

Laurent shook his head. "You need to get your stuff back. And Dean needs to be held responsible."

When did I get to be so self-righteous, Laurent wondered.

"Why would Dean rip us off?" Brian wondered. "I know

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