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Title: Sundowning
Author: Joanne Merriam
Length: short story
First Publication: Strange Horizons, 2010
What the Story is About: In the future, blood donation isn’t optional.
Life is wonderful though, isn’t it? It’s not the wonderful I remember being promised as a child, before the infection, before the war, before the New Deal, when everybody was supposed to grow up to become President or a pop star, but it’s wonderful, in a subtle way, just to be alive. I woke up and gave my father a bath, and he smiled at me over breakfast, and then I went to work, and I cooked a lot of hot, greasy food for people who enjoyed slowly killing themselves with fat and sugar because it was such a delicious contrast to being instantly killed by somebody else’s need for blood.
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Categories: 2010-2019 • Merriam - Joanne • Short Fiction • Vampires
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