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A Shadow In the Corner Part Three

A life after death where we make our own paradise rather than some sterile heaven that is bottle fed to the masses from a priest. Father…let me die now…so that I may truly live.”With that, she lay back against me, her throat exposed to me once more. When I bit into her throat again, she moaned as a satisfied lover might, feeling arousal as I took her life. At the last moment, I whispered to her “Kiss me childe… kiss your father”. I then bit into my lip hard, and pulled her mouth to my own. My blood flowed into her mouth, and she soon was nursing at my lip as a newborn nurses at its mothers breast. My life was filling the almost empty vessel that was her earthly body. She stepped free of her mortal body then, dropping it on the floor as one would a soiled garment. We walked together into the moonlight, and waltzed together to the eternal music of the naked stars. Her body was found the next day. The doctor said that the cause of her death was severe anemia, and her “parents” reported that she had also suffered from depression. Their life went on, as it is known that teens sometimes do die. Perhaps it was an eating disorder, or drugs that stole their daughter from them. The truth be known though, their daughter wasn’t stolen, but had been given away many years before. And she waltzed through the eternal darkness with her true father ever after.

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