Bill The Vampire - 01

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by Rick Gualtieri

“What?”

  “You heard me,” she sniffed in an impatient tone.

  “Why am I packing?”

  “Because that's what people do when they take a trip, unless they plan on traveling naked, and if that's your plan then please let me know so I can make sure I never have the same itinerary as you.”

  “Hold on. What trip?”

  “The one you're taking,” she said as if speaking to a moron.

  “Why don't we start over, and you tell me what's going on?”

  “I thought you'd never ask,” she said in that annoyingly chipper tone she adopted whenever she knew she was pissing me off. “You're going to China.”

  “What!? Why the hell would I be going to China?”

  “James' orders. He called and requested your presence.”

  “Why?”

  “Beats me. You can ask him that in person in about two days.”

  “I don't even have a passport!” I protested.

  “Wow, that's kind of sad,” she said. “Not surprising, mind you, just sad. Fortunately, you don't need one.”

  “Why wouldn't I need a passport to get into China?” I asked. “Pretty sure they check those things there.”

  “Because it's a long flight, and since commercial airlines tend to have rules against their passengers going up in smoke when sunlight hits them, I made some alternate arrangements.”

  “Define alternate arrangements,” I said.

  “You, my friend,” she replied, putting even more chipperness into her voice, “have been booked into a first class coffin in the cargo hold.”

  “WHAT!?” I screamed into the phone.

  “You're welcome. By the way, you might want to pack a pillow.” *click*

  Bitch!

  * * *

  Scary Dead Things

  Available in both ebook and paperback.

  Table of Contents

  Introduction

  The Day I Died

  Before I Became the Dearly Departed

  The Day Before the Day I Died

  A Party to Die For

  Be Still, My Beating Heart

  Bill the Vampire

  It Sucks To Be a Vampire

  Sunday Bloody Sunday

  Coming Clean

  The Long Road... err, Train, Back Home

  How Do We Sleep When Our Beds Are Burning?

  One Will Stand, One Will Fall

  And Now for a Kung-Fu Training Montage

  Back To the Meat Grinder

  History Lesson

  Date Night

  The Dork Tower

  Kicking Ass and Taking Names

  The Terror That Flaps in the Night

  99 Problems and a Bitch is Definitely One

  Vampire on Vampire Action

  The Road Trip of the Damned

  On the Road Again

  Grudge Match

  Here Comes the Sun...

  And, Of Course, There's an Epilogue

  About the Author

  Bonus Chapter

 

 

 


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