11/06/2023
VAMPIRE BOY
There was a teenage boy named Lorcan who said he wanted to be a vampire. Everyone thought he was just looking for attention. He didn’t have any friends. All of the kids in school were afraid of him.
He was odd-looking and his head seemed too large for his body. He was unnaturally thin and his eyes were sunken and had dark circles around them. His cheeks were hollow and his skin was a deathly shade of pale. He dressed in black from head to toe. He wore a long black trenchcoat that resembled a cape.
When the other kids were playing sports, Lorcan would be sitting in the corner of the school yard, engrossed in one of his books. He collected books about vampires, devil worship and satanic rituals. He read each one over and over, feverishly underlining passages and taking notes.
There were always strange rumors about him floating around the neighborhood. Some younger children claimed they had seen him murder a dog and drink its blood. Others said he would kidnap cats in the neighborhood and bring them home so that he could perform weird experiments on them.
His parents were worried sick about him. His odd behavior unnerved them and they didn’t know what to do with him. They brought him to doctors and psychiatrists, but none of it did any good.
One night, his mother found some of his books. When she realized they were about satanism, she was horrified and threw them in the garbage. Lorcan didn’t complain or protest, but when his parents went to bed, he crept downstairs and went outside to retrieve his beloved books from the trash.
The next day, he made a big hole in the ceiling of his wardrobe. It was his secret passage and it allowed him to crawl up into the attic unnoticed. He kept all his books there, safe from prying eyes. The attic became his secret place.
He even constructed a makeshift altar and decorated it with satanic symbols, upside-down crosses and crude drawings of the devil.