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While Fererra sucked the life from Trenton Tross, beauty emerged and replaced the overlapping scales that she’d donned to consume her prey. Her olive complexion returned across skin soft and flawless like the day she was born. The emerald orbs that glowed in her eyes eased back into the auburn irises that she used to captivate simple-minded men.
She released her tiny fingers from Trenton Tross’ wrists, but there was no reciprocating movement from the slab of a man resting beneath her. Pulling her lips away, Fererra watched his head sink to the side. The only other time she’d seen him so helpless was when Nigel Andresen beat him black and blue and then climbed out of the cage with his title; this time it was different, it was permanent, and Trenton Tross wouldn’t be granted the opportunity to redeem himself with a rematch.
Fererra rolled from the bed and tiptoed around the broken picture frame and torn clothing as she headed to the kitchen for a glass of pinot and a butcher’s knife. On her way back she noticed that the front door was ajar, the apartment’s only object of security having been left open throughout their intimate activities. Fererra swung it shut without much thought. She returned to the bedroom, stood before of her full length mirror, and admired her own nakedness, glass of wine nestled in one hand and butcher’s knife clutched in the other. Even with seven-hundred years of immortality under her belt, Fererra never grew tired of admiring her own body. Her complexion glistened with a vibrancy that could only be extracted from the lifeblood of foolish mortals. Her every crevice showed perfection. Her every curve gleamed with youth. And her every orifice served as a gateway, capable of delivering one to either heaven or hell, all depending on the whim of her mood.
She’d enjoyed Trenton Tross, and every ounce of passion that she’d scraped from the walls of his hungry soul. He’d awakened demons in her that hadn’t come out to play in decades. And it mattered.
But it didn’t matter as much as her insatiable appetite for immortality. And it didn’t matter as much as the security that wealth could provide in this modern age of economic uncertainty.
Fererra sipped her wine then discarded the glass beside a bowl resting on the nightstand. She gave her lover a final look, admired his beauty, and sliced into his wrist with the butcher’s knife, not a care in the world for the bloody mess that gushed onto her satin sheets. She sawed back and forth, so adamant on removing the extremity that she paid no mind to the sanguine liquid that splattered her body and stained the carpet. Making it as far as the bone, Fererra tossed the knife aside and then tore into his wrist with her teeth, taking a firm bite before whipping her head back and forth, repeatedly, until the hand ripped free.
She tossed it into the bowl on her nightstand, and took a moment to admire her trophy. Even coated in blood, the scarred knuckles served as the telltale feature, leaving no doubt that the hand once belonged to the great Trenton Tross.
The Moretti family would reward her generously. Don Moretti had kissed her hand on his promise: “Finish the man who finished my poor Antonio, and you’ll never worry about money again.”
Certainly, the Don had no idea how expensive a proposition he’d made. Fererra’s immortality was a well kept secret. The Don had no way of knowing that countless generations of the Moretti family would now live indebted to a creature that never aged. And he couldn’t even consider what she’d do to the male offspring if the family ever failed to deliver. But nonetheless, it mattered.
It mattered and it made Fererra smile.
Authors' biographies
XXX ZOMBIEBOY XXX
XXX ZOMBIEBOY XXX is a nomadic, self proclaimed Jack of all trades, master of none who haunts the streets of Denver, Tallahassee and New Orleans. A random selection on a video run with his dad changed his life forever. The video was the original Dawn of the Dead. An obsession was built and channelled through writing. XXX ZOMBIEBOY XXX has self published four collections (Octopus, Tentacles, Echoes, Squiddy and the Trees) under his own publishing company Autumn Carnival, and contributed to the Zombie Anthology "The Dead Walk Again, Vol. 1". He has written numerous articles for Carpe Nocturne Magazine and has worked as the Horror Editor for them for the magazine for two years.
XXX ZOMBIEBOY XXX has directed music videos for The Cruxshadows and the Living Deads, as well as experimenting with short films and appearing in music videos. He is also an alternative model for artists and musicians, recently appearing on the cover of a new RPG. His style is eclectic and generally bizarre, mixing dark poetry with photography, horror tales, exotica and song lyrics. An amateur adventurer and self proclaimed anti-hero, XXX ZOMBIEBOY XXX hopes to release his last "Octopus" collection on Halloween of 2014 and his first full length zombie novel in 2015. https://www.facebook.com/Autumncarnival, www.carpenocturnemagazine.com, http://www.modelmayhem.com/xxxzombieboyxxx
M. Birds
M. Birds is a writer and film maker who resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has previously been published in This is the Way the World Ends, an anthology of apocalyptic erotica by Freaky Fountain Press.
Carmilla Voiez
Carmilla Voiez is a new voice in the world of horror. While imagery harks back to the writings of Clive Barker and H P Lovecraft, her voice is uniquely female. Starblood is perhaps the first true female horror story ever written, dealing with both sexual violence and the struggle of a woman trying to make sense of a senseless world. Carmilla grew up on a varied diet of horror. Her earliest influences as a teenage reader were Graham Masterton, Brian Lumley and Clive Barker mixed with the romance of Hammer Horror and the visceral violence of the first wave of video nasties. Fascinated by the Goth aesthetic and enchanted by threnodies of eighties Goth and post-punk music she evolved into the creature of darkness we find today. Living in North East Scotland, she finds inspiration in the wildlife, castles and desolate places which surround her. She lives with her two children by the sea. http://www.carmillavoiez.com
Glen W. Hunter
Glen W Hunter (aka - screamofconsciousness) has been writing lyrics, poetry and short stories for 15 years. Initially a song writer and rap performer, he took to the spoken word scene in Glasgow in his early to mid twenties, performing regularly at spoken word events throughout Glasgow, including the west end festival on two occasions. In 2010 Glen wrote an academic book called Hegemony From The Heavens - The military industrial complexes' plans for Full Spectrum Dominance (Available for free here - https://archive.org/details/HegemonyFromTheHeavens-TheMilitaryIndustrialComplexesPlansForFull) In 2014 two of Glen's spoken word pieces appeared in Basement Beauty written by Carmilla Voiez. The pieces were written for the character Daniel. Currently Glen is working on two short horror stories to be published towards the end of the year. One micro story called The Room, about isolation and a descent into madness. The second story, called Villains, is about a deranged serial killer whose childhood obsession with comic books, mixed up with the brutal murder of his parents, results in a gory spree of murder and cruelty. Spoken word and poetry pieces can be found at http://ascreamofconsciousness.wordpress.com/
Glen's work can also be followed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Glen-W-Hunter-Screamofconsciousness/488673231208743?ref=hl
Nina Stevens
Born and raised (mostly) in the South, Nina Stevens considers herself a good Southern woman, complete with quirks and a heated temperament. Equal parts honey and spice, she revels in the contradictions that make her life interesting. Fast cars and motorcycles, photography, home-making, vintage finds, and all things sparkly are some of the best things in life. She’s an avid reader who believes that books are a wide open adventure waiting to be embarked on. She currently resides on the MS Gulf Coast with her husband and two doggy accomplices, where she writes poetry and runs their home while the dogs run the show. She’s currently working on several new projects, you can find her at http://ninanoctem.blogspot.com/
Lily Eyre
Lily Eyre is a former Gothic Model who prefers to stay on the other side of the camera these days,
although she still loves to play dress up every now and then. She currently runs her own business making fantasy and fairytale inspired jewellery and accessories and has just completed her BA in History and would one day like to achieve her MA in the same field. She happily lives in her own self created little bubble but would love to take up residence in Tim Burton's imagination. She is currently putting together a collection of slightly twisted love stories and has almost completed her first full novel. https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/DecadentCandy, http://www.tumblr.com/blog/lily-eyre
Charlotte Ondac
A writer with a loving partner and two children. Heavily inspired by writers such as Anne Rice, particularly The Vampire Chronicles, interested by dark Gothic horror. Especially focused on the mythology of vampires, and the erotic nature of these beings. Lives in Wales, working in education. A practicing pagan, Charlotte Ondac has a deep interest in ancient mythology, and wishes to explore how these ancient mythologies could affect our current world, and our views of humanity. Wishes to explore more into the dark eroticism of vampires, and other strange creatures.
Dagmar Travner
Dag Travner was born in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, the southernmost Austrian state, and raised there, bilingual with Italian as first and German as second language. Feeling between cultures and a bit nomadic, she has lived in many places such as Sweden, England and France until family life kept her eventually in Vienna; she was married twice, has two grown-up kids. She studied linguistics and philosophy at Vienna university and has been working as freelance writer (journalism, fiction) and translator for French philosophy. In her journalistic writing she is focussing on visual arts (articles in journals, catalogue texts and opening exhibition speeches) and postmodern philosophy. For her fiction, incl. radio plays, film scripts, stage plays and short stories, she likes to write about weird and dark characters emerging from an everyday normal setting. Travner still loves to travel and get to know different cultures ¨C experiences which are influencing to a high degree her work. homepage: www.travner.at, blog: www.travner.co
Zoe Adams
Zoe Adams hails from a seaside town on the east coast of England. Books and writing are her passions, and this has led to her gaining a degree in Professional Writing. Zoe takes inspiration from different cultures and their rich mythology. When not reading or writing, Zoe indulges in a healthy obsession with anime, games and films, spending time with her family, and listening to a wide variety of influential music.
Angel Edenburn
Gena Mantz (writing as Angel Edenburn) is a freelance poet, author, belly dancer, and legal assistant from rural Kansas who likes to hang out with paranormal and artistic types in her spare time. Her mild Dyslexia and ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) foster her intriguing outlook on life and her tendency to stay busy, and make regular doses of coffee a real necessity. She has taken the self-published route with a novel and a novelette, as well as being published in several niche anthologies under her pen name. She lives near the Little Apple, (Manhattan, Kansas) out in the middle of a big pasture with her fur and feathered “children”, most of them orphans or rescues. Horses, dogs, cats, and even chickens call her ranchette home. She has two blogs- one written in character. Isisthevampire.com is her character blog and Angel’s Musings can be found at [email protected].
Victor George Matak
Victor Matak is a student at the University of Toronto. His works have featured, or are forthcoming, in publications such as Sterling Magazine, The Gap Tooth Madness; Crack the Spine Literary Magazine, IN MY BED Magazine, Hilt Magazine, Poet’s Digest Magazine, and others.
Mike Casto
Mike Casto a full-time RVer, traveling the country in his minivan, teaching martial arts and writing. Both of these items come together in his blog at http://trainagps.blogspot.com
Deborah Noel
Author Deborah Noel has been writing since she was twelve. Residing in Southeastern Pennsylvania with her husband, Ms. Noel has published the first novel in her vampire series, "Tangled Blood Lines", along with the first companion book, "Collective Souls - Remmie". She is working on several more books in the series as well as a few other projects. When she isn't writing, Ms. Noel can be found working with her husband at their demolition business or at the beach "people watching" and enjoying the sun. You can follow Ms. Noel on Facebook or visit her website at www.authordeborahnoel.com.
Sergio Palumbo
“Sergio is an Italian public servant who graduated from Law School, working in the public real estate branch. He has published a Fantasy Role Playing illustrated Manual, WarBlades, of more than 700 pages. Some of his works and short stories have been published in American Aphelion Webzine, WeirdYear Webzine, YesterYearFiction, AnotheRealm Magazine, Alien Skin Magazine, Orion’s Child Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, Farther Stars Than These, Digital Dragon Magazine, Kalkion Science Fiction and Fantasy Web Magazine, Quantum Muse, Surprising Stories, EMG- ZINE, The Speculative Edge Magazine, Australian Antipodean SF, British Schlock! Webzine, Australian SQ Mag, and in print inside 18 American Horror/Sci-fi/Fantasy/Steampunk Anthologies, 12 British Horror/Sci-Fi Anthologies, 2 Urban Fantasy/Horror Canadian Anthology and 1 Sci-Fi Australian Anthology by various publishers, and 10 more to follow in 2014/ 2015. He is also a scale modeler who likes mostly Science Fiction and Real Space models, some of his Dioramas are shown also in Italian (scale model) magazines. All the first drafts of Sergio’s short stories are edited by Michele Dutcher, aka “Bottomdweller”, who lives in a carriage house in Old Louisville, Kentucky with her border collie ¨C Daisy Dukes”
Nicolajayne Taylor
A horror erotica writer with a passion for the fire of imagination, and inspiration. Using a vast knowledge of mythology, horror fiction and erotica this is a featured short story.
The writer of The Curse of Mary brings you some foreplay to the up and coming release that will have you riveted till the end. She gives you a story about overcoming obstacles. The story has realism and dialogue so natural that you could place yourself in the story.
Nicolajayne Taylor is an author from the northwest of England who has travelled and this lends a hand to her earthy stories. At 32 she has embarked on a journey to give people a glimpse of reality obscured by pour fantasy and drama that reflects her real life in a great use of metaphorical wording. She dedicates her writing to her late mother who always encouraged her to do something with her writing and stories. Her mother Toni Gaynor was a lover of horror and fantasy, her dream would have been to see her daughter write and share with others. https://www.facebook.com/NicolaJayneButterflyAngel,
https://www.facebook.com/ExpressButterfly, https://www.facebook.com/groups/eroticahorrorlit/
M Jet
M Jet is wild, wicked, and free. She proudly possesses a roaming Gypsy spirit, having gone many places, learned, experienced, and done many things. Of M Jet, people often say she has a special darkness that draws a person in despite her attempts to turn them away. M Jet employs magical thinking. The mysterious Ms. Jet is a lover of all things dark, sad, sometimes sexy. Some of her previously published works include, "Mojo", "I Killed Collette", "High on Her", and "Death Wind." M Jet is also the author of the internationally bestselling series, "The Nursery Rhyme Chronicles," that is inspired by actual events.
Pamela Osmond
Pamela Osmond is a writer in her mid-forties from Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She has been writing Horror, Erotica, Erotic Horror, and SciFi since she was 14. Pamela has a vast array of interests. Besides writing, they include singing, reading, architecture, European Geography/studying atlas, animal welfare, and ghost hunting.
James Park
James Park lives in Columbus, Ohio with his gorgeous and delightfully articulate wife Ngouanephone. He’s been featured in a number of genre fiction publications, including Dark Moon Digest, Ghostlight Magazine, Cemetery Moon, and Sanitarium Magazine. New work is scheduled to appear in Infernal Ink Magazine, Night to Dawn Magazine, and
Massacre Magazine. He has contributed horror stories to the upcoming anthologies The New Whakazoid Circus, Lost in the Witching Hour, and Moon Shadows, and will have a piece of well-crafted smut published in the Apologues’ of Erotica anthology.
Catrina Horsfield
Catrina Horsfield is an artist and writer living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her work has been published in Parabola and New Witch magazines, and she has recently finished her second novel, She lives with her brilliant husband, brilliant child, and four insane cats. She has a fondness for owls, antiquities, and magic.
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