Vampires Never Get Old - Zoraida Cordova Page 0,61
In Laura’s story, Jude was transformed against her will and it left her angry and isolated, but she finds her footing among the beasts.
If your vampire self could shape-shift into a creature, which would you choose?
MIRRORS, WINDOWS & SELFIES
Mark Oshiro
invisibleb0y
June 5, 2018
Do you know what it’s like to be invisible?
Do you know what it’s like to not see yourself?
I made this because I have no one to talk to. That’s not me being melodramatic, either. I have been reading the words of others for so long, but it’s time for me to speak.
My name is Cisco.
(Deep breath.)
I’m a vampire.
(Cliché, I know.)
And I’m all alone.
Well, there are my parents, but I don’t feel close to them most days. And not in that corny way you probably assume, either; they think of me more as an anomaly than anything else. I am not supposed to exist, and yet here I am! Shoved out into the world, an impossibility, and I don’t even get a choice in the matter.
I made this because maybe it’ll help my life be a bit more bearable. I don’t know. I don’t really have any grand plans for it. I just need to talk about how I haven’t seen myself.
Literally.
I don’t know what I look like.
Pretty sad, right?
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invisibleb0y
June 6, 2018
There are rules. I can’t break them. My life is a gift, I’m told. Vampires don’t breed, according to my parents, who normally are my only source of information on my kind.
So these rules are there to protect me. To keep me alive and safe. To keep me away from the other clans, from the vampires who will do terrible things to me if they know I exist. I’m too unique and too special. Vampires are territorial, sure, but Mami and Papi assumed the worst was coming, because … well, I’m not supposed to be real.
So they hid us away, far out in the middle of nowhere, and I’ve known the rules for my whole life.
The Rules
1) I’m to be supervised at all times. Seriously. No time away from Mami y Papi. I’ve broken this rule for brief periods of time—maybe a few minutes here and there—but they are seriously always around. I don’t even get to hunt by myself. It’s too risky, even though we’re so isolated from others, because someone might find me. They might find out I exist. That’s the worst possible outcome for my parents: that I’m discovered, taken, dissected, studied, that the very knowledge of my existence will bring heartbreak and death to us all. So we live in an abandoned farm outside of … well, let’s just say somewhere like Blythe. Or Sheridan. Or Freeburg. We’re always in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes there are a few scattered homes, but generally? Nothing for miles and miles.
And still I’m not allowed out of their sight.
2) No photos of any kind. No evidence in the world that I exist. Which means …
3) No unsupervised Internet usage. Papi stole an old school computer years and years ago, and we sometimes get lucky enough to siphon off a nearby signal. A quarter mile or so down the dirt road from us right now, there’s another house. No clue who lives there. But they’ve boosted the signal for whatever reason, and their connection is probably real shitty because I’m using it every time it reaches us, particularly on clear days.
But I find moments when my parents aren’t paying attention. When they’re occupied. When I can go to all the sites they’d say no to. They don’t want me to read any of the unsavory things people say about vampires. Too much misinformation and propaganda, apparently.
I know how to erase my browsing history, though. Mami y Papi aren’t that savvy, so they have no idea how to stop me. So I’ve read a lot about “us.” What the world thinks of vampires. You all have weird ideas of what we’re like. But I don’t feel any different knowing all the myths and rumors. Is it really so bad just to know?
4) Then there are the little things. The things they tell me are true and I believe them because I haven’t found anything online to counter it all. So: no silver.
5) No wooden stakes. (As if I’m going to stake myself? Okay.)
6) No mirrors. Apparently, they used to be backed with silver, and even if they aren’t anymore, old habits die hard with vampires. No risks taken, no rules broken.
7) No interaction with any humans who are not a meal, either immediate or planned.