5.20.2008

A Pint of Blood

by Michael Kechula
100 words


Curious, Frank answered a newspaper ad: “Beautiful Vampire seeks donors."

A week later, they met in a restaurant.

“You’re cute,” she said. “What’s your blood type?”

“A-Positive.”

“My favorite. Mind loosing a pint tonight? Makes me incredibly aroused.”

Frank couldn’t wait.

“Dessert?” asked the waiter.

“We’ll pass.” Squeezing Frank’s thigh, she whispered, “You’re my dessert.”

And he was. But he was also appetizer and main course.

Her ad was a lie. She was a man-eating zombie, not a vampire. Newspapers accept classified ads from vampires, werewolves, ghouls, but not zombies. That’s nasty discrimination. What’s a hungry, man-eating zombie to do?





Michael A. Kechula is a retired technical writer. His flash and micro-fiction tales have won first prize in six contests and honorable mention in three others. His stories have appeared in ninety-two online and print magazines and anthologies in Australia, Canada, England, and US. He’s authored two books of flash and micro-fiction: “A Full Deck of Zombies--61 Speculative Fiction Tales” and “Crazy Stories for Crazy People.” Both paperbacks available at www.amazon.com eBook versions of the former are available at www.BooksForABuck.com and www.fictionwise.com

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