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Weekly Contest #299
I Was a Childhood VampireBy Diane Head I was seven years old when my father allowed me to watch Bela Lugosi’s famous 1931 portrayal of Dracula. Why he allowed it never ceases to confound me. It was the start of a brief childhood obsession with vampires and was to be the cause of another incident that came back to bite me many years later. I sat next to my dad on the couch to view the old vampire movie. We had plenty of popcorn and I squeezed in under Dad’s arm, riveted to the TV. I was hooked like a prize fish. From the...
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