Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires by Ben Acker

Author:Ben Acker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2022-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

VAMPIRES MIGHT ALL BE LIARS!

The weekend came and went, but you know who didn’t? Evan’s friend Justin the editor! I don’t think Evan even knows anyone in book publishing!

Evan has been avoiding me for days. He only comes in for stories and then he leaves right away. Maybe he’s just embarrassed about getting the sandwich wrong that time. That’s not what it feels like. It feels like he’s avoiding a conversation about Justin the editor. Maybe he has other things on his mind. Maybe he has other plates spinning. I don’t know, do I? Because he won’t talk to me! He might just be the kind of vampire who would rather disappear than disappoint. It’s so frustrating. If you were to ask me which is worse about vampires—that they are liars or that they feed on the blood of the living—I would definitely have to think about it!

Here’s another heads-up for you. I’m not trying to escape or anything because what if Evan isn’t lying? If I were to try to escape, though, I don’t think I’d get very far. I haven’t seen the front door since that time I was in the entryway. This house makes everything hard! I’ll be walking down a hall, and then turn around and there’s no hallway back there anymore. There are three doors, and I am suspicious of what will be behind them. Stairs change direction sometimes. I never know where I’m going. This impossible but true house is truly impossible sometimes!

It’s getting more vampiric, too, the house. Black lace everywhere. Candelabras growing wild all over the place. There’s one room that is now lined with satin as if the room itself is the inside of a coffin. Oh! Oh! Guess what! Some of the vampires have taken up watercolors!

Vampires are truly terrible at watercolors!

But that doesn’t stop the house from making these ridiculously ornate frames to hang up every drippy effort.

The house is reflecting the vampires in a way mirrors can’t.

I just have to tell myself that it was never about a book. It’s about telling stories, which, I realize from this experience, is something I love to do.

Fortunately, as stories go, the one I’m telling myself—that I’m enjoying my time telling stories and it might all be worth it if vampires aren’t liars and an editor might show up any day now—might even be true.

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