AUTHOR’S NOTE and EARLY CONCEPTS
Alice · 10:58
U came home late
and left early without saying goodbye
Where r u?
I was not terribly enthused to begin my workday, so I jotted this down instead.
I hadn’t intended for it to end up being Halloween-themed. That was sheer accident.
Details of the challenge on the jump; otherwise, read it below and throw sharp objects at me when you are done for having wasted two minutes or less of your life when you could be doing something with those chair legs instead.
It’s not easy being an insomniac in the best of times.
These are not the best of times.
While everyone was looking the other direction — alien invasions, zombie apocalypse, the threat of AI annihilation — the vampires were quietly working in the shadows. Literally.
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[Note: The following email printed to PDF was discovered in a Drive folder on Alice’s phone named “Kyle”.]
Alice Donovan <Alice.Donovan.73@[withheld].com>
Fw: Re: Funeral (fwd)
1 message
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WhiteRabbit.73 <WhiteRabbit.73@[withheld].com>
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 9:42 PM
To: Alice.Donovan.73@[withheld].com
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From: DonovanA01@[withheld].edu
To: WhiteRabbit.73@[withheld].com
Subject: Re: Funeral (fwd)
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 16:12:07 -0500 (CDT)
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:49:31 -0600 (CST)
From: GrendelTC@[withheld].com
To: DonovanA01@[withheld].edu
Subject: Re: FuneralAl—
Sorry about the delay in responding (not about missing out on the funeral, though). Tommy was out of town on business and I didn’t want to bother his fiancee just to hear “You’ve got mail!”
(more…)we laugh, fool & crow,
did we forget to forget?
— frost breath in the morn
For Ikkyū.
Links to the earlier parts of this collaborative tale written with Jolene Rice can be found: Part I, Part II, Parts III & IV, Part V and Part VI. And now you have Part VII in your grubby little fingers.
I’d forgotten how far we’d taken this before I flaked out. Good thing Jolene is around to (finally) put it to bed. This is getting into the territory of where I get to be surprised by where she decided to take this.😄
AUTHOR’S NOTE and EARLY CONCEPTS
Well, I managed to turn that into a shitshow, didn’t I?
[21 seconds of silence in recording]
I don’t know what Kelly [kali] was going on about. I don’t understand. No one talked. If you can believe nails [Nils], he didn’t say anything to the kid at the store. I didn’t say anything to anyone. Even played stupid with DK.
Maybe he did say something like the package was mesh gear or something. Nell [Nils] would slip something like that if he got angry and forgot to keep that detail quiet.
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