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I didn’t have a computer anything. I didn’t trust them. People shot their mouths off too much on the computer and secrets got told, and they could even be broken into, and all one’s secrets stolen. If any of my secrets got told it would be by a tongue I would then cut out.

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I didn't want her to ever get to the point where she got to be not hungry. I wanted her to go on and on forever with the story, like Scheherazade, putting off the terrifying inevitable.

Tea and Vampires

I made a cup of Chai tea and read about bloated, ruddy corpses floating in blood in their coffins, and corpses that ate their own shrouds.