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by kazuki separate rabah translated

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by jocelyn alan you're

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looking for something a little bit different

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than during a treat with this isn't

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vampire collection it is

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a quiet read and plays around

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with different ways of seeing an understanding

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the creatures as well as a

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really unique look at magic

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are limited to be other and what it

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is to find make a and

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build the family a small chart

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faith is three loosely

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interconnected short stories about

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the bamboo which are vampires

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from the mountains of china who thrive on

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human blood in on bamboo they've

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been subject to asylum as

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many have had to flee their homeland

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due to the fear of people

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who want them killed and who are working toward

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killing them the bamboo ultimately

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choose to settle in japan and

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thus begins the first story in the collection

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of a bamboo shoots to rescue

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a small boy once that boy's

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family has been killed the two

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of them develop a really powerful friendship

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despite the fact that a bamboo

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housing and caring for human is against

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all bamboo law and could result

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in a huge penalty and the fact

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that bamboo also drink human

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blood but , a tricky

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situation in this case bamboo

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also live really long lives of

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over one hundred years closer to

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but one hundred and twenty years and when

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boy is rescued he knows that he's

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been saved by an older bamboo and

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throughout the story the boy sees

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him through the end of his life

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the story is actually

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quite funny there's really sweet humor

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here and i found it kind of reminiscent of

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what we do in the shadows that the film

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and ah it's also this really sweet

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story of found family and

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what happens when one decides to but

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the large tradition in the name of creating

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a powerful relationship relationship

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story sets the stage to

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give some of the history the bamboo and

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it offers us the character coyote who

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will appear in the second story so

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the second story and the collection is about

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the collection bamboo who we're

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human a but who is accidently turn

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into a bamboo when the mob

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hired monsters to murder her family

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and she comes out of this quite

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different so in this

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story how makes an appearance in

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he's a high school in a suit the stories that we

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get the opportunity to experience

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a whole different side of the

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bamboo here the

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female bamboo and coyote

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be com link to deeply with one another

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through , other high jinks

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and the more serious connection

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they develop so in this story

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they ah and get some highjinks

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by by humans

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and sort of to lead

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playing pranks on humans in a way that

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the big build this bond and this

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connection this is really

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serious and deep and this really thoughtful

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look at relationships but it's also

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funny that second story

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than leads us to

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the third and final story which

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good back in time and we get a history of how

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the bamboo ended up in japan in

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the final story so we learn about

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when the bamboo the bamboo lived

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in china and how it is to

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royal vampires who were teenagers

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help save their it entire species

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through this migration to japan

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the really nice collection of stories

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and it's so interesting to see

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such a different take on vampires it's

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also really rare to see books and

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translation and way let alone

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why a horror in translation but

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this book exactly that i'm

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in a new appeal to readers who like quieter

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stories as well as readers were

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looking for a more contemplate

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of look at vampires their mythology

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and

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what

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they represent as there

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it's cold out of order so

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there's some reader patients that involves

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a kind of put all the pieces together of

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the the empire war and mythology

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in their history and how they came to

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japan from china but this

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is something i know that could it in of

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itself be appealing to so many

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readers that need to kind

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of ticket slowly and peele the only

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in back and

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understand how it's all

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intertwined so if you're looking for

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a different take on vampires

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you will want to pick up a small charred face

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like kazuki sucker robert translated

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by just one alan and

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then my second pic i wanted to talk about

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today is vampires never

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get old edited by as a writer cordova

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am natalie see parker somebody

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kirby thing as somebody who is edited three

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anthologies and also reads a lot of

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anthologies i can say without

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hyperbole the different is pretty dang

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masterful in that ,

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it's structure but also it's format

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theory of stories and the arrangement of stories

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in the collects in cordoba

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and parker needs really magical

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and for roses and fine in this collection

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i flew through it i'm not

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a huge vampire story reader

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despite what tightening about the umpires

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stories year but this one i

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just i loved every story in it

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and i thought that each story

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stands alone but also

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if so thoughtfully a range

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is that they build upon each other

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and zip create this

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whole collection of possibility

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about what a vampire's story

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can be an ,

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a story seems alone as i mentioned before but

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one of the things that the editors do

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is after each story damn a

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short know about the vampire mythology

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from which the story was inspired and it's a nice

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way to get both a story

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as it stands plus some insights

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on the editors and some insight as

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you

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write a story belongs in the collection

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the mother

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favorites in here for me included, first

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bite by victoria schwab, which was

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netflix, and it

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is available to stream now is a series

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but it's worth noting because this is

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because queer and a story by

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an about girls and only got

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a single before it was canceled so enjoy

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it, but you won't know, you won't get more the

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at a pace and hear the story follows

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a girl who is vying for another girl

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what is of the empire and other the slayer

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and the other things get a little bit complicated

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their employees really really

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well in particular with the tension of romance

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against that of instinct

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him and what drives the person and

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in this case you know what drives a vampire what

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drives the flair there's really

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good if you like that kind of attention the

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couple other stories that really stood

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out to me as a reader where the boys

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from blood river by rebecca roan worth

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and inclined to buy kayla wally

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they landed really well with me so rowan

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horses story is about the atmosphere

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and so if you like atmosphere core

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hers is going to stand out you as well follow

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the queer boy named lucas who lives in

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a small town and he's grown

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up with the legend of the blood river boys

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they can apparently be some in three songs

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and i see that as the

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way the story a bloody

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mary works were you have this and can't he said

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be seated the right time in the right place

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you can summon bloody mary by in this

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case it is the blood

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river boys and lucas is

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determined to find out if this is true and that's

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that's what the story follows and

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then kill a wheelie story is

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a really great revenge

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story about story about named greatest

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who is disabled and

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help her father and not only is she

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killed by her father because she's disabled

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but he celebrated for

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that

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unfortunately for her father before

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she dies grace is

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turned vampire by somebody and

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she now has now has to confront her father

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in demand answers for his

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action other contributors

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in this collection are julie murphy who

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writes a vampire cheerleading

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story there is a stem

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same story with a trim lead from

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haiti healing and healing really cool

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gatsby ask read when about

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black vampires and new orleans by

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daniel clayton ah there's a whole bunch

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more but those are some other ones that kind of stood out

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to me as a reader and kind of gives

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an idea of just how

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wide ranging this point in his whether

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you like your vampires darker

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colder you like them hotter funny

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this

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the party has something for yeah it

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is what to do it good closer short stories

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dies i have stories that all

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work for every reader or work

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for many readers rather and some

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which won't i think a lot

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of readers when they come into an anthology

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believe that every single story should plan

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with them but the reality

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is a good anthology has stuff

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that will not land for a single

10:44

readers so you want an apology

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that's going have for you stuff that

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like standout and some stuff that you like

10:50

air with okay wasn't really my gm

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because that shows just how

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wide ranging a collection is

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and how many different types

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of audiences will

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the company and it to enjoy this one does

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that over the right in this land

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and stay for the stories that

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they are cheap and here i had to put that

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line and there and if you've got to this part

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of the podcast you a cheese kelly thank you

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for saying that you're welcome i

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wanted out with it briefly mention them off

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diaries by rachel klein i'm

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not gonna talk about this one and that because

11:22

there's a great episode of he

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way extra credit where samantha

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mabry and i sat down and did

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a book club discussion of this one but it's

11:31

another great and thoughtful

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vampires story that has

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dark academia lives and

11:38

is one of those laid the author we

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ever wrote one book and this is kind of

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a a cool classic

11:44

if you will a new workload classic so

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am i recommend picking that went up and kind

11:49

of going in either with just

11:51

knowing that or listen to

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that backless episodes or lincoln the show notes

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that may give you some more insight

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into when a particular story

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