Subsequent to the publication of Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel, the public’s imagination has been fired with visions of vampires thirsting for their own survival by drinking the blood of the living. This story carries on that tradition but is set in a future time when most vampires have been hunted down and destroyed. We present here the tale of a lone survivor.
Legacy of the Hunted
Russ Crossley
I shifted the prey’s weight in my arms, then lowered it onto its back on the rain-slicked blacktop of the trash-strewn, stinking alley. It blacked out quickly after I squeezed its airway closed. I was careful not to kill it. Not yet. My food is best eaten fresh.
Not that it’s heavy. I caught it at an awkward angle when it fell backward is all.
My nose wrinkled under the assault of a
