bratgrrrl

Have the vampires left New Orleans?



They can't drown, can they?

I wondered b4, if they took advantage of the calamity, and for the almost 2000 still missing, that SOME had met their end through otherworldly means.

or am i just trying to romanticize something in a gruesome way? is it actually better to die as someone's meal or snack or amusement or craving, is that better than dying because you're too tired to keep your head above sewage flood waters any longer?

I don't know. There was a vampire shop near the cathedral. (I always found it amusing that they were only open in the daytime, but I imagined that the daytime shop might be a front, hiding in plain site as it were, and if you went by on some evenings you'd see the REAL customers...) It looked suitabley gothic from the outside. I never went in. I enjoyed the thought that it might have SOME element of realness like some of the voodoo shops here, and was afraid i would go in there and find fake blood, candy fangs and brad pitt t-shirts.

So i didn't go. And now it's a real estate agency, fluorescent lights and white walls, utilitarian desk. (Although it's never open and never has anybody workng inside, but that's my imagination again, trying to create a story.)

The UFO is a weather satellite. The floating ghost is held up by strings. Those are lightening bugs, not fairies. And New Orleans is just a city. It's NOT blessed by the gods, and NOT cursed with unthinkable supernatural happenings. It's just a city.

Right?