Death's Realm by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Short Stories
Goodreads: 24550717
Publisher: Grey Matter Press
Published: 2015-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Controlling them came easy, once she realized she could do it. It was nothing to banish them, to send them away. No more nightmares hovering over her. That was the best part. She felt bad about making them do things, especially menial tasks she could easily accomplish herself. She refused to “kill” them and continued to balk at eating them. That’s where Cavallaro put his foot down.

Turned out Jacob Cavallaro was born in 1932. Now, so many years later, he still appeared to be in his late thirties. This he directly attributed to the eating of ghosts. Not only had it allowed him to age at an incredibly slow pace, but he had survived being shot on seven different occasions, stabbed four times and nearly hanged once.

With his personality, Madeline wasn’t surprised.

Cavallaro teased her about her reluctance to eat. He also taunted her about other things lurking out there in the night other than necromancers. In those early days, he loved to frighten her by spinning tales of vampires, wendigo and werewolves. He tried to convince her that while these creatures were wary of their kind, a kind that casually shattered the wall between the living and the dead, those creatures wouldn’t hesitate to prey upon one as weak as her. Still, Madeline wouldn’t feed.

Finally, one morning in Tampa, as Madeline was doing her hair in the mirror, she heard him enter her hotel room with bagels and coffee. She turned to find a knife plunged into her stomach. Now it was feed or die.

So she did, three of them, as she lay there in a bloody mess on the bathroom tile. She tried to apologize to them, but she could barely speak. And when it was done, not even a scratch remained on her.

She still had not met any vampires, wendigo or werewolves.

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