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Oct.20.2011
It was an old cemetery. No one was ever there. The place sat forgotten on a tiny knob of a hill behind the Goodyear Tire store and Bob’s Big Boy. Lydia and Gary dared each other to leapfrog over the few headstones still standing. Some of the graves...
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Sep.29.2011
Mom left Dad, again, and we were driving from East Texas to New Mexico. There was a horrible accident on the flatlands, and Mom pulled over to do the looky-lou thing. I might have been...
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Sep.16.2011
Vampires have historically been considered evil, and were blamed for many little understood situations in the cultures that spawned them. But fictionally they are currently not considered 100% bad. Since they’re the living dead – creatures to be feared rather than desired – they...
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Sep.08.2011
My thoughts are on strangers: a Venetian beauty with the stunned expression Venus should have had when she emerged naked and fully grown from the clamshell; the everyday strangers in one's own family; and my favorite song about being strange.
The Birth of Venus, Botticelli, 1482...
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Sep.16.2009
Greek legends tell how Phyllis, queen of Thrace, fell in love with Demophoön, king of Melos, who visits her court en route for Athens after the Trojan War, where he had hidden inside the legendary Trojan Horse. He left the court, but when he failed to keep his promise to return within a month, she...
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Aug.11.2009
Vampires have historically been considered evil, but fictionally they are currently not considered 100% bad. If you add a bit of trendy perversity, perhaps even martyrdom, to the mix you might get an instant hero, or the 20th century equivalent – the antihero.
Antiheroes are the ultimate...
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Aug.05.2009
Based on recent focus of vampire/human love affairs in both literature, movies, and television it seems normal for humans to fall in love with vampires and for the undead to rise heroically to their siren call.
Or is it the other way around?
Each one offers the other what no one of their own kind...
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About Sandra
Sandra Ramos O'Briant's work has appeared in Whistling Shade, Flashquake, Ink Pot, NFG, The Journal of Modern Post, Café Irreal. La Herencia, latinola.com, LBF, and The Copperfield Review. In addition, her...