by Alan Ryker
It did. It had to stop.
Jessica could feel the rotation of the Earth. She figured that it was just a bad concussion. She could hear and feel her heartbeat throughout her entire body, because everything hurt. Everything hurt. Her head, her left hand, her left arm, both shoulders, her spine, her hips, all the way down her left leg, everything hurt. And everywhere she was injured, she felt her heartbeat. Every single beat of her stupid goddamned heart brought her pain.
She was glad Jack left. She wanted to be alone. But not to do this anymore. It had to stop.
Eventually, she noticed another rhythmic pounding. She couldn't say when it had started. It was a hollow, metal booming. It came from across the yard. From inside the grain silo.
A vampire.
It had to stop—but it couldn't.
It never ended.
About the Author
Alan Ryker writes good fight scenes because he studies Muay Thai boxing, though not as often as his coach would like. He lives with his wife in Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, where he writes both dark and literary fiction, and tests the boundaries of each. He has previously published short fiction in a number of print anthologies and magazines.
Check out his many adventures at his blog, Pulling Teeth at www.alanryker.com. Enjoy his most mundane thoughts by following him on twitter: @alanryker. Fan him on Facebook. And contact him at [email protected].
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If you enjoyed Blood Tells True, experience the beginning of the Harris family saga in Alan Ryker’s critically-acclaimed novella, Burden Kansas: Vampires of the Plains Book 1.
“Suddenly my faith in vicious, scary, and blood-thirsty vampires is being restored.”
-AnythingHorror.com
“What Alan Ryker can do in 132 pages puts to shame most of the 400 plus page horror books I have read. I am forever a fan.”
-Novel Opinion.org
“It's a bloody rip roaring tale that gallops past quickly.”
-Morgan Gallagher, author of Changeling (The Dreyfuss Trilogy)
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