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THE FAT VAMPIRE

by

Norman Spinrad


(c) by Norman Spinrad
1 rue Maitre Albert
Paris France 7500
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When she returned from puking up the meat course in the ladies' room, the deserts were already on
the table, enormous platters of profitrole au chocolate--six balls of vanilla ice cream encased in puff
pastry and swimming in lakes of deep dark fondant.

"I took the liberty...." Armand said suavely, smiling at her as he wrapped his lips around a dripping
spoonful.

Christine had never met a man like Count Armand Kubescu before.

True, Los Angeles was awash in slick continental types laying claim to nebulous titles of nobility,
dressing like Ruritanian diplomats, and living it up with no visible means of support. It was an old
Hollywood tradition. They fronted fancy restaurants and clubs, pimped for sleazy porn producers, sold
real estate or used Mercedes, or gigoloed for ancient has-been starlets flush with the proceeds of their
latest divorce.

Like most of these counts from central casting, Armand Kubescu had thick straight black hair
impeccably groomed in some unisex Beverly Hills salon, intense dark eyes under dramatic brows, and a
light generalized European accent. Like most of them, he was slim, graceful, affected a languid William
F. Buckley slouch, and seemed ageless.

Ordinarily, Christine Coleman avoided such creatures like the plague they were. If they weren't gay,
they were impotent, and if they weren't impotent, they were into slimy fetishes or dumb bondage
numbers. If they weren't out to sell you something, they were out to sell you.

Indeed, in a certain twisted sense, they were a form of competition, predators working the
neighboring ecological niche. Christine understood them all too well.

For Los Angeles was even more abundantly awash in beautiful women of a certain age which made

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