Casket Girls to Step Out One More Time, Contract Signed and Returned

Those flighty, New Orleanian vampiresses, les filles à les caisettes (cf. July 4 2020, April 3 2018, et al.), are at it again. These are the ladies sent there from France in 1728, by orders of King Louis XV, to marry the colony’s most influential — and richest — men, to induce them to settle down and raise families. But who had brought with them the one named Aimée who had special dietary preferences, which the rest of them now shared too. And so they continue to this day, their original story, “Casket Girls,” first published on April 10 2014 in DAILY SCIENCE FICTION.

Others of their company, and Aimée too, have starred in other stories in subsequent years, most recently the five-part flash fiction sequence “Casket Suite” in DEFENESTRATIONISM.NET(see February 2, et al.), for which one can press here. But that first story, “Casket Girls,” has been republished itself only once, in THE SIREN’S CALL for April 2018. At least until now.

Thus Monday’s email from Mind’s Eye Publications’ Editor/Publisher Frank Coffman: Congratulations! This message confirms the acceptance of your submission to THE VAMPIRICON: IMAGININGS & IMAGES OF THE VAMPIRE [which will be published both in digital form and in print].

A DIGITAL COPY OF A CONTRACT FOR PUBLICATION [a PDF form] IS ATTACHED. Mind’s Eye Publications will consider digital signatures as sufficient. . . . .

The contract, with other information, went back at 7:30 this evening.