August 6th 1808 Antoine Laveau was drenched sweat. The oppressive summer heat had been steadily increasing all day and now that it was approaching late afternoon the full blast of the Louisiana sun baked everything in sight. The air, thick and still as hot molasses, was deathly silent. No sound could be heard over the steady monotonous hum of cicadas buzzin...
"Inside I still feel like the 23-year old that wanted to be your fuck toy," she said, her eyes a little wild and a little lost. We have a long often tumultuous history, Aurora and I. We've spent as much time being enemies as we have being friends and only in the last few years have we been able to stand to be in the presence of each other. Six or seven yea...
Dahlia appeared in every way as an ancient mixture of Louisiana Creole. Her hair shinned caramel and copper with strands of gold. Her eyes shined a deep fluorescent emerald green, and her skin glistened the color of honey in candle light. Her body was complete perfection. Her face was mysterious and beautiful. Her breast were large, firm and sloped upwards....
New Orleans, Louisiana It was a beautiful spring day, in sunny New Orleans, Louisiana. Melody had just gotten accepted to Tulane Law School, and was about to start her first year in a couple of weeks. She fell in love with the city, the first time she laid eyes on it while she was a senior at the University of Southern California. She had just moved into...
I was born in New Orleans. My parents moved us away from the city long before I got to know it. I was in town on a business trip and found myself eager to explore the Big Easy. After the first day of seminars, I decided to go out, get a drink, and listen to some tunes. In New Orleans, music and the smell of good food permeates the air. I headed for the neare...
"Rachel, you are a crazy woman, and the funny thing about insanity is that people who are insane don't even know that they're insane," Paul Winters said with a smile, and Rachel LeConte smiled, knowing that she had him right where she wanted him. One way or another, things were going to change between them tonight, Rachel would have it no other way. "I'm no...
Is it considered prejudice if you're against dating your own kind? My name is Cassandra Saint James and I'm a Vampire living in the City of Toronto, Ontario. I was born in the City of Cap-Haitien, on the Northern coast of the island of Haiti on January 29, 1812, and I became one of the Undead on February 7, 1834. As a citizen of the Haitian society of the ol...
The call caught everyone by surprise, but Tim seemed to have taken the news of his cousin Jacob's un-expected passing especially hard. Tim was only five or so years older than Jacob and the two had been more like brothers for much of their lives. Both had similar interests (fast cars chief among them), racing and just in general having a good time together....
Chapter 1: Everclear Plantation, 1832 Terri and I first became acquainted when she moved to Louisiana in 1832 during the boom times. I had just completed renovating my small plantation home forty miles north of New Orleans, set back a little from the Mississippi. Her husband worked for me and managed the plantation commerce. We grew sugar cane and shipped...
Writer's Note: This story begins after the disappearance of Philippe Trufont in Vampires' Victim Disappears. * Lucius Carter sauntered down the sidewalk on Esplanade Avenue as the sun set over the French Quarter. He had no reason to hurry but did look forward to spending the night with his granddaughter. He reached the ancient brick building that had been...