What if instead of a brazenly murderous overlord, Dracula was a clumsy, middle-aged custodian? Marcus who, against all odds, abhors vampiric violence, must face the consequences of accidentally murdering his first love. 

In “Questions for Vampires“, Marcus, the night-shift custodian at Transfiguration Hospital, catches the eye of the pretty new nurse, Angelina Zanovich, who, ignorant to his vampirism, pursues him after hearing him sing “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” in the hospital morgue. Not only is he surprised that she finds him interesting, but their budding romance is put to the test when she invites him to sing in a place where vampires don’t often dare to go: the local church choir. Through elaborate machinations to break into church before sunrise, the growing anxiety that his vampiric identity might soon be revealed, and the retrospective tension of knowing he’s already murdered her, Marcus the unusual vampire has bitten off far more than he can chew in this story that begs the question: when you’re on the run from the law and from yourself, “What do you think you’ll do then?”

I am a graduate student at Northwestern University studying creative writing, and I have an undergraduate degree in English and education. I have been published with the National Council for Teachers of English, in an Amazon Documentary titled 1/10th of a Second, and I write vampire fiction for thousands of readers on Archive of Our Own.

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