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    Photo by  Ivo Rainha  from  Pexels Hello travelers! If you're a book nerd, you may have spent hours thinking about your dream library. Whether it was the library from Beauty and the Beast or just a few floating shelves in your bedroom, everyone has an idea of what their dream library would look like if money and space were not a deciding factor.  My dream space is a room with built in shelves, large windows with a window seat and lots of pillows, and plants and a few nature or nerdy pictures on the walls. However, I have had the experience of moving a few times and each time my available space changes. At college, it was three shelves above my desk, in my first apartment, I shared a couple of bookshelves with my husband's music collection, and now I have five large book cases to call my own. This fluctuating library size has not cut into the number of books that I own (I don't have a problem. What are you talking about? Don't look in the closet!) but it...

  Photo by  NEOSiAM 2020  from  Pexels Hello travelers, I thought I would present this excerpt from my WIP titled The Unfortunate Death of Dorian Greene. This story is a New Adult Urban Fantasy focused around vampires. This is still only the second draft of this story, so some events may change by the time it is finished.  For this excerpt, please be aware of trigger warnings for blood, violence, murder and a little body horror.  I hope you enjoy. Milky-white liquid pooled around her feet, dripping from her soaked dress, her long hair, and her claws to mix with the red flowing at her feet. Bright light pierced her vision, cutting and clawing at her brain. The beast hissed.  Squinting through the glare, she bent over the body and bit the artery, chewing at the flesh a few times before letting the blood flow into her mouth. Warm, sweet and metallic. She closed her eyes and continued to drink, the insistent drumming in her temples slowly subsiding as her ...