Blood

By Lucifer Stoke

A shamelessly derivative and unabashed tribute to my friend Ed Poe, who died under mysterious circumstances one lonesome October, much as this one, only colder. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers, in your daydreams and your nightmares, as you read this tale of a weary soul, of insufferable woe, and a haunted man's hopeless struggle against an immortal enemy — blood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lucifer Stoke
• Release date: Oct 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005656430

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Blood

Lucifer Stoke

Copyright MMXXII Lucifer Stoke

Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

Jeremiah 12:8

Blood

Have you ever hated a man - loathed a man - so much that your very soul sickened at the thought of him?

Then I am afraid you will not understand me, and it is understanding that I seek. Never once in all these years have I confided in anyone; for I expect to be misjudged, and I fear what I might do if I detect the slightest suggestion of moral cant.  

Let me begin by telling you what I did - what I had to do, though you and all the wicked world call it sin - and if you forsake me then at least I will not have wasted words.

I killed a man. I murdered him in cold blood, and while I feel not the slightest pang of remorse for