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 A new guy comes in and tries to mooch me off of Rick.
This new guy is huge—six-four at least, muscle-bound and
flat-topped, with gross arm veins that only a steroid dealer
could love.
He’s awful. He has on a purplish shirt that aches to be
retro but is really just retardo. Fat gold links. Weight-lifted
man-boobs that are probably bigger than mine. He’s Omega
Travolta, some inbred result of a million years of anony-
mous disco hookups.
Not only that, he speaks the line out of a hundred B-
movies, mid-season TV pilots and Charles Atlas print ads.
“Hey baby, why don’t you dance with a real man?”
I give him one out. “I’m here with Rick,” I say, pointing.
“You’re here with Prick?” he asks. “Sweetie, I got all the
prick you need right here.” And lord help me, he grabs my
hand and puts it on his crotch.
Okay Omega. You had your chance.
“You are inadequate,” I tell him, and I don’t bother to yell it.
I’m speaking directly to a specific part of Omega’s mind,
the part of every mind that craves discipline and punishment
and longs to willfully obey a strong leader. I seize that part,
the sniveling worm of the soul, through Omega’s eyes and
twist it beneath me. I can do this very, very well.
“Your penis is too small. Every woman you meet can tell.
Lots of men can too.” He can’t ignore this. He can’t doubt
it. This is his new truth.
His eyes are locked on mine and although he shouldn’t be
able to hear me over the thumping club beat, I know that ev-
ery word is getting hammered straight into his brain. “You
do not have what it takes to make a woman happy. You make
women laugh. Women laugh at you all the time.”
More than his hand goes limp, and I can see tears starting
to drip out of his eyes. Good.
“Go home and think about this,” I tell him, and he turns
to the door, moving like a man in a very sad dream.
This is, I think, my favorite part about being a vampire.




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