Do those vampire teeth hurt? Well, too bad because it’s Halloween and time to wear them, even if they’re making you look like you need extreme orthodontics. Even if you look like you just ate a stray cat. Even if you are trying to be an animal–other than a human animal. Actually it’s fun to stop being human, right? So go ahead–be a tiger, or a wolf, or a bear or a dinosaur.
And to all you vampire grandmas: Remember the days when you were little and could transform yourself into an animal? Be a horse or a deer or a lion or a snake? I recall jumping species, becoming other. What a relief not to be human.
Great fantasy!
Before the vampire grandmas dumped the driver and gagged the Global Loan and Online Bank manager, the ride had been dull. The limo had been stuck in traffic on Route 25 out of Asheville at five pm. But when it crossed into Transylvania County, mountains and rhododendron green surrounded them. By midnight, the black Cadillac turned and began its assent, bouncing over Dogtired Rd, a shoulderless dirt trail, twisty as a copperhead, lit with full moon light, up the mountain to their secret lair.
