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MONSTER LOVE

┬й MaryJanice Davidson, 2002



Prologue



From the private papers of Richard Will, Ten Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts.



"Becoming a vampire was the best thing that ever happened to me. The very,

very best. Which is why I don't understand all the literature, how the vampires are

usually these moody fellows who rue the day they ever got bitten, who pray for some

illiterate European to plant a stake through their ribs. Rue the day? If the mob hadn't torched my killer
the next night, I'd have kissed his feet. I'd even have kissed his behind!



"After all, what else was there for me? Take over the farm when my father died?

No, thank you. Farming is back-breaking work for very little reward, and even less

respect. And I could hardly endure being in the same room with my father, much less

work for him the rest of my life. (Punch first and punch second, that was my dear

departed papa's motto.)



"Lie about my age to join the army, and get my head blown off? (All so sixty years

later we can ignore the Holocaust and pretend the Germans are good guys?) But back

then, if you didn't fight you were a coward. Of course, two wars later the young men

were encouraged to go to Canada, to avoid responsibilities to their country. If they

fought, and lived, their reward was to be spit upon at the airport. It just goes to prove, nothing changes
faster than the mind of an American.
"No, life wasn't exactly a bowl of fresh peaches. I was in a box, and each side of

the box was equally insurmountable. I wasn't the only one, but I was the only one who