title: My Vampire Prom Date and other stories
author: Shawn Pfister
description: Raised in Michigan, USA; Shawn now lives in Ontario, Canada with her family. Shawn is a painter and photographer, but writing is her true passion. Shawn is a featured writer in several recent anthologies including the werewolf anthology I Believe in Werewolves (Netbound Publishing,) the vampire anthology, Vicious Bites and the ghost anthology Vicious Spirits (both Key Publishing,) where her contribution, Ghost Stories was an award winner. Shawn Pfisters remarkable voice follows in the vein of other writers of young peoples fiction like R.L. Stein and J.K. Rowling. Like Stein and Rowling, Shawns stories speak, not only to the kid in your house, but to the kid in you!
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  Faster We Burn
  
  (Fall and Rise, Book Two)
  
  By
  
  Chelsea M. Cameron
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  Katie
  
  I told myself that I wasn’t attracted to Stryker Grant the first time I saw
  him. Between the pierced lip and eyebrow, his torn (not on purpose) jeans, and
  his bleached hair, he was the opposite of every guy I’d ever wanted. Plus, he
  was dressed as a vampire, fake fangs and all.
  
  My boyfriend, Zack, and I were on again, and I was enjoying being in the
  center of so much activity, so much life. Then Zack did what he always did and
  pushed it too far. In the middle of a crowded Halloween party, no less. I
  tried to chalk it up to him being drunk, but that was quickly becoming an
  overused excuse.
  
  Stryker was there quicker than you could say “damsel in distress.” I totally
  had Zack handled, but Stryker wouldn’t let it go.
  
  Plus, there was the whole drama of Zan, Zack’s brother, getting Zack home and
  everyone fussing over me like I was five. Then, Stryker called me “sweetheart”
  in a way