Anathema

By J.T. Marie

Chapbook of dark poems about vampires, aliens, angels, demons, monsters, diseases, villains, rogues, and the sea. The bulk of these were written during my years as an undergraduate student at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia, and represent some of my favorite themes: death, lost love, the ocean, alienation, and (odd as it may seem) disease.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Jun 16, 2010
• ISBN: 9781935753506

J.T. Marie

J.T. Marie is a pseudonym for author J.M. Snyder, who publishes gay erotic and romantic fiction under her full name. For those curious, the initials stand for “Jeanette Thomas” and Marie is her middle name. She also writes gay young adult romance under the pseudonym J. Tomas.A graduate of George Mason University, Jeanette worked as Fantasy Editor of the school’s sci-fi and fantasy journal, The Fractal, for two years. After college, she created and maintained an online webzine, Disenchanted, to further a love of fantasy fiction. For more information on her non-gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, please visit her website.

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Copyright 2010 J.T. Marie

ISBN 978-1-93575-350-6

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Cover Photo Credit: Luna Vandoorne Vallejo

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Cover Design: J.T. Marie

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Published in the United States of America.

POET’S NOTE: The poems are separated by the four asterisks you see on the screen. These indicate the end of the poem.

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anathema

By J.T. Marie

Table of Contents

Section I: Vampires & the Undead

At two a.m. it grows colder

Whose is the blood which flows

Stay—it