Birthright

Once a year our writing group, WriteOn Joliet, participates in the Open Mic at the Book and Bean Cafe. This year, as always, I read one of my Southern Shorts entitled, OPEN MIC EVENT.  Enjoy!

BryonySeries First Blog Tour Sue Midlock Vampires 1. What makes your vampires different from those that you've read? The characters are well-developed and three-dimensional. No doe-eyed teen romancers. No mindless, senseless blood debauchers. All four vampires (John Simons, Henry Matthews, Kellen Wechsler, and Ed Calkins) were once "real" people and are now undead. 2. Are your vampires completely fabricated or do you follow the mainstream...typical vampire? If by mainstream, you mean: super-violent and gory, romantic, misunderstood, vegetarian; and/or alive and infected with a virus...then no. If you mean created from existing vampire lore, then yes. Here's what 1970s teen protagonist Melissa Marchellis learned from her library book: Creatures of the Night: Witches, Werewolves, and Vampires. All of these elements appear in the BryonySeries. * By day, vampires repose in their burial places; at night, they rise to feed, either to kill or control. * Once under t