Sample Sunday: Vampire Assassin

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He didn't notice me at first. They never do. That's one of the things about being plain—you often get ignored. By the way, it's not true that if you turn into a vampire, you automatically become beautiful. I'm just as dull and unbeautiful as I was alive. The only difference now is that my hair refuses to hold color for any length of time, so I'm constantly re-dying it. Today, however, that plainness was working in my favor. I was practically standing right next to him. Yet he was so...