The vampires attack, and there is no escape.

The main protagonist of my BIG CRIMSON horror trilogy, Kyle Harris, is a Good Samaritan who comes to the aid of young man who comes to his back door one evening after sunset begging to let inside lest he be killed by an attacker. Turns out, the young man and his attacker are vampires, and Kyle’s act of kindness sets off chain of events that makes him the object of the wrath of a vampire clan. One thing Kyle has in his corner if the gratitude of the young vampire whose life he saved. But that might not be of much help when the vampires out to get Kyle invade his place of employment: the state prison where he works as a correctional officer. The following is an excerpt from BIG CRIMSON 2: THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR when the going gets tough in the inside the prison walls.

An excerpt from BIG CRIMSON 2: THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR:


“Son of a fucking bitch, that’s what I’m talking about!” shouted an exuberant con as he stood over the guard’s headless corpse.

“Looks like they cut and dressed that pig proper!” Silo Morgan yelled and got a high five from two other inmates.

“Yeah, motherfucker!” sang a chorus of cons craning their necks to get a better look.

“I am in deep, deep shit,” Kyle muttered to himself. He was standing right behind the mob of inmates gathered around the headless body, and he knew the situation had already slipped beyond control. The formerly stifling air inside the recreation room was now alive with a deadly exhilaration and a lust coiled like a rattler ready to strike after days of tension, boredom, and cold turkey. Blood was in the air—literally. Kyle could feel the ground shifting beneath him—all bets were off and all arrangements of mutual convenience null and void. He knew he should turn and flee through the door behind him, get to the outside and seal the cellblock. All his training told him it was time to retreat, but it would mean abandoning the lieutenant and his fellow officers still inside D Building.

That he would not do.

Wading in, he grabbed one inmate and then another, flinging them back against the wall behind him. You’re way outnumbered and they know it, he thought, just don’t let on like you know they know it. Act like you’re in charge. It might work. Across the room he saw his fellow CO, Roger Emerson, backed up against the far wall. Kyle managed to catch his attention, “Call the lieutenant, and tell him to come now. Officer down. Then help me!” Emerson didn’t move; instead, he just kept hugging the cinderblocks as though hoping to escape through a crack in the wall, eyes the size of saucers.

“Get away from him. I SAID NOW!” Kyle reached the center of the room; a pool of dark red now surrounded the headless corpse. For a second, he felt his stomach rise into his chest and acid gurgle in the back of his mouth, but somehow he fought the nausea back dawn. Puking in front of the cons now would be a fatal sign of weakness. “GET BACK!” he commanded to the inmates gathered in close, and in doing so, felt dozens of hard-as-stone eyes turn their full gaze on him. For a moment, the situation teetered on a high wire, and then the inmates complied, stepping away ever so much, allowing Kyle to get a better view.

The USMC insignia tattoo on the left arm told him the identity of the headless man was Leland Jolly, who’d done a twenty year stint in the Corp, survived Desert Storm, came home, and got a job at the prison; Leland had been on duty at the front gate.

“BACK OFF NOW!” To his relief, the circle around the body widened, but as much as Kyle had kept his eyes on the inmates, he’d continually been cutting his gaze upward toward the ceiling where, twenty feet above, the broken skylight now revealed an unobstructed view of the night. Whoever had separated Leland Jolly from his head was surely still up there.

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