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Tuesday 29 October 2013

Free drinks



God but she was sexy, the way her jet black hair hung over her shoulders, the enigmatic smile that revealed just the slightest glimpse of perfect teeth, and slightly more than half the length of two gleaming fangs. The slim trickle of blood that weaved a line from the corner of her mouth to her chin.

Her curves were sheathed inside a skin tight, slit-from-mid-thigh scarlet number that made him wish he had been the shoe horn that had helped her into it.

He licked his lips, wincing as he caught his tongue on his own fangs, swirled his cape back over one shoulder, and went in for the kill.

He poured a couple of strong Bacardi and Cokes and carried them over to where she stood.

He raised one eyebrow suggestively and gave her his best breathy snarl as he offered her one of the glasses. she snarled right back at him, grinning all over her face, she accepted the glass with one hand while clawing the air with the fingernails of the other.

“So, what's a nice vamp like you doing in a place like this?” He asked.

“Oh I met Greg a couple of weeks ago in the library, and he invited me to the party. How about you? What's a handsome bloodsucker like you doing here?”

“I've been coming to Greg's fancy dress Halloween bashes for years now, always have a good time, plenty of free drinks to get stuck into, usually end up paying for it the day after though. Drink up and I'll go get us a refill.”

Two hours and several drinks later and the idle chit-chat had turned into drunken giggles. Arms slung around each other's shoulders, they slurred into each other's ears above the din of the music and raised voices.

Fur began to fly when a heated discussion between two werewolves turned a bit more physical. Within minutes several more guests had joined the free-for-all.

When the grim reaper staggered across the room and planted his fist into the nose of a dust-streaked zombie, adding a decent sized smear of real blood to the fake stuff already daubed on his face they decided it was time to leave the party and head to his place for a nightcap.

They kissed in the back of the taxi, giggling each time their fangs clicked and clashed together.

By the time the taxi pulled up outside his house the hugs had turned into fumbles and deeper exploration.

Once inside the house he pulled her to him, embracing her tightly, squashing her breasts to his chest. He kissed her deeply, then pulled away laughing as their fangs caught again.

“Time to lose these, I think.” He said, removing the fake, but very real-looking fangs, and placing them on the coffee table.

He turned back to her, pulled her to him once again and locked his mouth onto hers. His tongue slid between her lips, the sharp prick of pain took him by surprise causing him to jerk his head back in reaction. He tasted the coppery flavour of his own blood in his mouth.

“I think it might be a good idea if you took your fangs out too.” He said to her.

“Oh, mine don't come out.” She replied, smiling broadly.

He watched with horror as her fangs slid silently upwards and disappeared into her top gum, then almost immediately slid back down again.

Even if he had been totally sober, he would still not have possessed the speed or strength to prevent her gripping him tightly, pinning his arms to his sides.

“Time for more free drinks.” She said.

He just stood there powerless as she tilted her head to one side and sank those glinting, razor sharp fangs deep into his neck, slurping sounds echoed loudly around the room as she drank greedily.


©2013 Stephen. J. Green.


Happy Halloween everyone, and watch out for those ghosties and ghoulies roaming the streets after dark.


14 comments:

  1. A fun story Steve - I admit that the moment he said "“Time to lose these, I think.” He said," I knew that she was for real but it didn't spoil the humour of the piece one bit for me. Thanks for the smile and Happy Halloween! ^_^

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    1. Happy Halloween Helen, glad that it hit your funny bone, I definitely had my tongue in my cheek when I wrote this one. :-)

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  2. I cracked up for the ending. Poor fella who gets stuck with the tab for those "free" drinks!

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    1. Haha! Yeah, I don't think this was the "Nightcap" that he had in mind :-)

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  3. Very fun story Steve. I liked the suspense of trying to determine which one of them was a real vampire. Great descriptions too!

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    1. Thanks Deanna, I'm happy that readers are viewing it with the humour I intended, I had my tongue firmly in my cheek when I wrote this one.
      This is far far milder than my usual gory and grisly Halloween stories.

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  4. The problem with free drinks is that they always end up costing more than the ones you pay for up front. ;-)

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    1. This can be oh so true Tim, I've spent many a day "paying" for all the "Free drinks" I've consumed at people's barbies and house parties. :-)

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  5. Yep, Hallowe'en is when we all get to be ourselves. Unfortunately for this poor guy, he found himself as a late night treat.

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    1. Heheh! Yeah, definitely not the late night treat he had in mind. :-)

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  6. Oooh, nice and vivid.

    Never mind walking in sunlight and eating garlic, the truly successful vampire these days would have to be one who could hold their liquor.

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    1. Thanks Katherine. Having a high tolerance for alcohol would be a definite advantage when prowling for prey in the hunting grounds of the pubs and clubs. :-)

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  7. I figured there would be a bit more to her than fake fangs!

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    1. Hi Icy. At least one of them had to be more than what they seemed, didn't they? :-)

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