The moon is pregnant with magic tonight, and possibilities. I drive home in the frigid weather. My car is reading a temperature of 11 degrees. I have just visited my mom at the nursing home. I am certain that the episode that she had just before the New Year was a minor stroke. Mortality weighs upon me amidst the chaos. But I want anything but mortality tonight. I want magic and possibilities. I want to wrap my arms around the impossibly glowing full moon. I want to swallow her light and to change my destiny.I enter my apartment and look a little cock eyed at my once resplendent Christmas tree, thinking that it's now a fire hazard and I speculate about banishing the magic and the lights for another year, Christmas 2011. My persian cats, Marcello, SanRema, Cosette, Luca Bear and Poe greet me. After showering I check my email. My fingers move quickly to delete the messages that I don't recognize, but I feel a sense of anticipation, then chills as I hover over the delete button on the one message that doesn't display the sender. I am intrigued before I remember Lila and NightShade, her vampire lover. Then, I am almost frantic. Could this be what I've been asking for?
Nice work Joy. It has heart and suspense.
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