NEW RELEASE: Memory's Vampire (a dark, urban fantasy, short story)

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Not all vampires feed on blood. The ones we hunt take your memories before they take your life—and now they are hunting back. We’ve been compromised, and I don’t know who to trust. That comes later. Right now, I just want to make it back to my body alive.

Memory's Vampire is the first short story release for January 2025...and the first release for the year. This dark, urban-fantasy, short story is told by a vampire hunter who finds herself in more trouble than she expected on a routine hunt. Can she survive until the dawn? And will she get her assistant back alive?

You can find Memory's Vampire at the locations listed at this Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/u/47gVYg

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You can find it as part of A Collection of Death and the Undead, a collection of short fiction and poetry found at one of the locations listed at this Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/u/47gVYg

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You can access it as part of the Wanderers and above subscriptions on my ReamStories page, here: https://reamstories.com/cmsimpsonwriter

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