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Angler: Ivory
Arizona United States
User Joined: January 31, 2010 16:05
About Me:
Straight out of college, the opportunities to write software were far too lucrative to ignore, and playing music with some of the all time legendary Latin musicians in the world left little time to write prose, so writing was shelved for a few decades. Now, mostly retired from music, and facing retirement from the workforce, I have returned to writing and am in the process of marketing two novels and several stories.
TaleBait is a great place to exercise the writing muscles without having to plan out the entire plot in advance.
Submissions to Refereed Storylines
Julie found Dante first. "Dante!"
Dante spun around. He felt like the proverbial kid with his hand in the cookie jar. He was thankful he didn't have to worry about blushing. "Julie, what are you doing out here?"
"Looking for you. Funny how we expect our new guests to actually stay for the first meeting and learn the rules."
"Rules? You have rules against going for a walk?"
"Where's Candice?"
He started to ask, "Who?" but her blouse chose that moment to flutter d...
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"Look pal, I don't know who you really are, but you're not Schuster."
"And you don't need to know who I am. I spent months setting this sting up, and all you had to do was follow protocol."
"If you were from an another agency, you could have just approached us for help, but you didn't, so you must be just another cowboy criminal."
"And you're just a bleeping bureaucrat who is sleeping with his secretary and lets state secrets slip out in his sleep."
"How did you..."
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There's nothing like a fresh kill to bring a vampire back in touch with his true nature. Dante looked up at the stars, his chin still smeared with blood, and savored the taste that still lingered in his mouth. You might think drunks and addicts would be food for only the desperate vampire, and thinking so may prove your humanity, but the truth is, their diet is low in iron which makes their blood a delicacy among connoisseurs. The drugs which taint their blood just adds a lottery feelin...
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