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    The Death Coach
    The Death Coach
    The Death Coach
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    The Death Coach

    By Matthew Callahan

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    Vampires revealed themselves to the world, and the party ended. They abandoned the old ways of nightmarish terror to embrace legal recognition, cheap blood from their local grocery stores, and the new drug Pacivamp that calmed their violence.

    Gerard Martin, a French vampire undead for over two centuries, now finds himself wasting his nights in a distant suburb of Chicago, addicted to online games, afraid he may never make something of himself again. Determined to improve his life, he hires Steve Schiller, a self-proclaimed life coach for the undead. A death coach.

    The Death Coach is story one of The Vampire Gerard, a series of shorts about a vampire learning to live in modern day America.

    This story is approximately 7300 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatthew Callahan
    Release dateOct 19, 2011
    ISBN9781465776334
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      The Death Coach - Matthew Callahan

      The Death Coach

      by Matthew Callahan

      Copyright 2011 Matthew Callahan

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      Table of Contents

      Awake in the Dark

      A Walk in the Dark

      The Death Coach Cometh

      A Vampire Walks into a Diner

      The Party and a Surprise Guest

      The Last Hurdle

      Awake in the Dark

      The last rays of light from the setting sun tinted the sky blood red, then disappeared below the horizon. Evening came to the Midwest, with the darkness of the new moon, and the frigid air of a winter not yet ready to depart. In one small suburb of Chicago, Fox Glen, the streetlights switched on, the bars filled up with locals looking for a drink or an evening of pool, and the town’s resident vampire awoke from his daytime slumber.

      Gerard slid the white plastic lid of his coffin off to the side, knocking it to the floor with a crash that reverberated through his basement, then sat up from the royal purple comforter and pillows, wiping the daysleep from his eyes. As he stepped out onto the cold blue concrete floor, he yawned and stretched his muscles; Gerard was one of those uncommon vampires who acted out the habits of the living, though his body had no need for them.

      He made his way upstairs to the kitchen for a drink, stopping twice along the way: first to switch on his computer; second to gaze into his bathroom mirror. Every evening he asked evening why he hung onto the mirror when, as a vampire, it showed him nothing. And yet, every evening he stopped and stared into it, imagining what he would see if he

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