Rachel Caine & Kristin Cast & Claudia Gray & Nancy Holder & Tanith Lee & Richelle Mead & Cynthia Leitich Smith & P. C. Cast by Immortal_Love Stories;a Bite

Author:Immortal_Love Stories;a Bite
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Young Adult Fiction, Vampires, Juvenile Fiction, American, Paranormal, Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, Interpersonal Relations, Supernatural, Children's Stories, General, Short Stories, Horror, Love Stories
ISBN: 9781933771922
Publisher: BenBella Books
Published: 2008-08-27T05:00:00+00:00

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NANCY HOLDER

The vampires invaded New York the night Jilly turned sixteen. She was pacing in front of a club called Watami, waiting for Eli to show, eager to see what he had bought her. He was late, and she knew it was Sean’s fault. Sean wouldn’t want to come, because it was Jilly’s birthday and Sean hated her. But Eli would make him do it, and they would show and she would wonder all over again why Eli couldn’t love her like that … and how he could love someone who didn’t like her.

Then, out of nowhere, the place was swarming with white-faced, bone-haired, blood-eyed monsters. They just started attacking, grabbing people and ripping open their throats—dancers, drinkers, bartenders, and her three best straight friends, Torrance, Miles, and Diego.

She still had no idea how she’d gotten out of there, but she called Eli first and then her parents. No service, no service, beepbeepbeep … no texting, no net; no one could freakin’ communicate.

She was Jilly Stepanek, lately of the Bronx, a semi-slacker who wanted to go to film school at NYU once she got her grades back up. She had been a neo-goth, into Victorian/ Edwardian clothes and pale makeup without the Marilyn Manson vibe, loved steampunk—but now all she was, was another terrified chick on the run from the monsters. Used to be the monsters were in her head; now they were breathing down her neck in real time.

No one stepped forward to represent the vampires or explain why they had taken over the five boroughs like the world’s worst gang. There were no demands, no negotiations, just lots of dying. In less than a week, drained corpses—the homeless, first—littered the streets of Manhattan, SoHo, and the Village. As far as Jilly could tell, none of them rose to become vampires themselves. Maybe all the movies weren’t true; maybe once they killed you, you were just dead.

The vampires had hunting animals like falcons that dug into their white arms. They were all head and wings, with huge white faces and bloodshot eyes and teeth that clack-clack-clacked like the windup false kind. Blood dripped and splattered onto the ground from the places the bird-suckers gouged their claws into their masters’ arms, but—she observed from as far away as possible—either the vampires couldn’t feel it or they liked it. Maybe it was their version of cutting.

The bird-suckers swooped and pirouetted across the night clouds, tearing the city pigeons to pieces. A few nights of slaughter and they owned the skies. A few nights more, and there were no wild dogs on the island of Manhattan.

Three nights after her birthday, a vampire attacked and killed her father; its vampire-bird ran her mother to the ground while they were running out of their house. Jilly screamed for her mom to run faster, run faster, oh, God, but it swooped down on the back of her mother’s head and started pecking and tearing. Her mother fell; her eyes were open but she wasn’t seeing a thing.

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