Painful Reminder

By Michael Edwards

Even with vampires, the hardships of life leave us with painful reminders of loss. Walter N. Cartwright has felt this lesson and now joins Claire Ashen as she battles the vampires with their wits and the backing of the Church.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Edwards
• Release date: Apr 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215099445

Michael Edwards

Michael Edwards was born in Brixton and left school at fifteen to become a cabinet maker’s apprentice. He has worked in the City, as a flour factor and cereals importer, a director of a food packing company, and as a legal archivist. He lives in Bournemouth with his wife Ann.

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PAINFUL REMINDER

Written by MICHAEL EDWARDS

Smashwords Edition

Copyrighted by Michael Edwards

Humanity is a vulnerable state. Something I know plenty about. The year is nineteen thirty and what I am about to tell you will seem unbelievable.

I was four years old when I had my first encounter with the night dwellers. The vampire. They whisked away one of the young girls of the village I lived in. They looked human to an extent save for the long ears, red eyes, and the pale complexion. When I was nine they killed my father.

The Church sent a vampire hunter, experienced in slaying the undead. Their only weakness was church secret but I learned it - holy water. The vampire hunter used only the most sanctified water to slay vampires. He carried with him a drinking flask and it didn’t take much. The Holy water acted like an acid that didn’t stop when it began burning them.

Every inch of them burned until there was