title: Your Vampire Story: (And How to Write It)
author:  David MacDowell Blue 
description: David MacDowell Blue edited "The Annotated Carmilla" and contributes regularly to the online magazine vampires.com
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  CONTENTS
  
  **Vampire Kisses**
  
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  To my father, Gary Schreiber, with all my love; for giving me the wings to
  fly.
  
  "I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into."
  
  —Alexander Sterling
  
  **1 Little Monster**
  
  It first happened when I was five. I had just finished coloring in _My
  Kindergarten Book._ It
  
  was filled with Picasso-like drawings of my mom and dad, an Elmer's-glued,
  tissue-papered
  
  collage, and the answers to questions (favorite color, pets, best friend,
  etc.) written down by our
  
  hundred-year-old teacher, Mrs. Peevish.
  
  My classmates and I were sitting in a semicircle on the floor in the reading
  area. "Bradley,
  
  what do you want to be when you grow up?" Mrs. Peevish asked after all the
  other que