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The Vampire Files

Song In The Dark

P. N. Elrod




To my good friends

Ian Hamill

Roxanne Longstreet

Roxanne Longstreet Conrad

Roxanne Conrad

Rachel Caine

AND ESPECIALLY

Julie Fortune!

Stand-up buds, all!
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Chicago, January 1938

I SLOUCHED in the backseat of Gordy's Cadillac, the one that had just slightly less armor than a

German tank, keeping clear of the rearview mirror out of habit, not because I cared one way or the

other. The driver, a stone-faced guy named Strome, probably wouldn't have said anything about my

lack of reflection even if he'd noticed. He almost certainly had other things on his mind, like

whether or not he would be the one delegated to kill me tonight.

It was really too bad for him, because I got the idea that he'd begun to like me. I already had his

respect.

A scant few nights ago Strome had seen me apparently dead, an ugly kind of dead, then had to

contend with my quick and mystifying return to good health. I gave no explanations to him or any