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    Interview for Immortality
    Interview for Immortality
    Interview for Immortality
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    Interview for Immortality

    By Matthew Callahan

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    Gerard Martin just wants someone good to bite. Seeking to create another vampire, he surfs a government website for legally sanctioned applicants to receive his embrace and a five year internship in exchange for cash.

    He contacts three candidates and arranges interviews, never suspecting how strange his night will become. Who will Gerard choose? The young woman seeking fame? The businessman seeking riches? The rebel seeking revenge?

    Or will he bestow immortality on someone else entirely?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatthew Callahan
    Release dateOct 20, 2011
    ISBN9781465888891
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      Interview for Immortality - Matthew Callahan

      Interviewing for Immortality

      by Matthew Callahan

      Copyright 2011 Matthew Callahan

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      Table of Contents

      Searching for a Bite

      The First Interview

      The Second Interview

      The Third Interview

      Gerard Takes a Stroll

      A Final Interview

      Searching for a Bite

      Gerard spent a full week running searches for mortals to interview on www.biteme.gov, the U.S. government’s database of candidates for vampirism. The first night he watched a boring video narrated by a Department of Vampirism employee. It explained the laws about embracing humans and offered friendly tips: only bite people who have received approval from their state government to become vampires; only accept payment through the national government’s official direct transfer system; read through the Department’s literature on interviewing candidates.

      On the second night he set up a search criteria: either gender; single; European ancestry; minimum $100,000 payment; at least a Bachelor’s degree. His results provided him with a list of over four hundred candidates, all living in Northern Illinois or willing to relocate. Each candidate entry included a bio, an essay, and either photos or videos.

      Gerard lived in Fox Glen, a small suburb of Chicago on the Fox River, in a quaint ranch house painted bleached bones white, surrounded by towering pines, cedars, and ash. He had mostly kept to himself since The Great Unveiling, and only a few of his neighbors even realized he was a bloodsucker. For a long while he had shunned much of society, vampire and human alike, sinking into a funk of cheap blood from the undead section of his local grocery, and online video games to distract his 220 year old mind.

      Now he wanted to get his unlife back, to become more involved in the world of both vampires and humans, and that meant

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