The Dark Sire Issue 2 (Winter 2019) | Page 38

The voice of everything I had feared in the gathering gloom touches my mind. I fear it no longer. It calms me, calls to me. Reminds me I am not alone. Turning the door handle I leave the horrors of the institution behind. I go to meet my Sire with joy in my heart. Well, in my chest, at least. Frances Tate is a self-published vampire writer, and a self-published and published writer of drabbles. She lives in the north west of England where she is working on a series of vampire books that explore the pseudo-science of vampires. When she’s not writing either novels or one hundred-word stories, she experiments with flash and short stories. She has one (long suffering) partner, two fish and a transient population of wild birds and hedgehogs to feed. She enjoys curry, cinema, reading, gardening, exploring historical sites and travelling. 36