Joe Vampire by Steven Luna

Author:Steven Luna [Luna, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 1935961675
Google: kwBzMAEACAAJ
Amazon: B008RSGGMI
Goodreads: 13495183
Publisher: Libertary Company
Published: 2012-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

POST 26

Outreach

It took a while to put all my new vampire factoids on paper so I could deliver them to Don. I wanted to make sure I had it all straight first. It’s not like I’m the expert on this stuff; that’s Louise. I’m just transcribing everything that fell out of her mouth and landed in my ears. If she ever decides to write a how-to guide for being a civilized night-living freak, I’m guessing it’d go best-seller. Among vampires, I mean.

Everyone else would probably think it was some kind of satire.

I flip-flopped pretty wildly about whether or not this was the right thing to do, me handing down someone else’s vampire gospel to the ignorant heathen with the blood cravings. Being one of those heathens myself, it felt snobbish, like I was some yuppie crusader for community service whose “helping” almost always comes across as an attempt to earn a better cloud in whatever heaven they think pitying others will get them into. Even if they’re just delivering used books to the library, you never see them without Gucci shades and a venti Starbucks drip of the day steaming up their expensive gloves, like they want to make sure they don’t get any pitiful on their hands. It made me question my own intentions for wanting to help a brother out… especially a brother who knocked the legs out from under my life. I didn’t want to be a hypocrite.

So I made sure I’d be going in gloves-off.

And definitely no Guccis.

There was a solid chance that this wouldn’t go over well at all, that he’d take my outreach as a huge kick in the nards of his chosen lifestyle. We weren’t exactly buds; we had spoken – lucidly – little more than one full hour in our whole lives, and he hadn’t shown any signs of wanting help with anything. He hadn’t even seemed overly bothered that he’d taken to jonesing for blood in addition to everything else he used to get cranked. For all I knew he’d tear up my paper, or use it to wipe his ass. Or roll joints with it. It didn’t matter. I wanted to show him there might be another way to live this life, one that didn’t require biting vagabonds in the parking lot behind Pomme just to get a fix.

And I really think I needed to close the loop with this dude, once and for all.

I’m not even sure I was doing this because I care about the guy. Prior to our encounter, he was nobody to me, an incredible zero who just happened to shit-stain my world at the exact point where it was all coming back together. One poorly-advised drink choice on my part and he’s suddenly had the single-largest influence on my life – and in the worst possible way. Our Venn diagrams have intersected in a permanent, fucked-up, football-shaped slice. So maybe now that I’m full-on vamping I can empathize with him in some roundabout manner, knowing how difficult it is to suppress This.

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