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    Flesh & Blood
    Flesh & Blood
    Flesh & Blood
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    Flesh & Blood

    By Katharina Gerlach

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    In these two dark fantasy short stories, the horror lurks in unexpected corners, and for those who are willing to see, there is a twisted kind of humor hidden within.

    The Angel
    Dying Van Cleft clings to his life with all the strength cancer has left him. He knows how to cheat death. But will his craving for an angel's body truly redeem him?

    Wedding Nights
    Child-vampire Constance hates hunting, but she's starving. However, her latest prey is more dangerous that she anticipated, and long suppressed memories awaken. Struggling against a fate worse than death, she fights for her un-death.

    A few words from the Authoress

    Normally, I'm writing stories for teens and children, but these stories are neither suitable for my usual audience nor for tender-hearted people. They are exclusively for fans of horror. I based the second story on a nightmare that cost me several good night's sleep. So, please, do not hold me accountable if the stories get under your skin. You've been warned.
    These two stories have been published in Germany before (yes, in German). They found many eager readers but the collections they appeared in are no longer available. I am hoping that with the rise of eBooks, they might find more readers who will appreciate them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Bookworm
    Release dateSep 23, 2016
    ISBN9781536544398
    Flesh & Blood
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    Katharina Gerlach

    Katharina Gerlach was born in Germany in 1968. She and her three younger brothers grew up in the middle of a forest in the heart of the Luneburgian Heather. After romping through the forest with imagination as her guide, the tomboy learned to read and disappeared into magical adventures, past times, or eerie fairytale woods. She didn’t stop at reading. During her training as a landscape gardener, she wrote her first novel, a manuscript full of a beginner’s mistakes. Fortunately, she found books on Creative Writing and soon her stories improved. For a while, reality interfered with her writing but after finishing a degree in forestry and a PhD in Science she returned to her vocation. She likes to write Fantasy, Science Fiction and Historical Novels for all age groups. At present, she is writing at her next project in a small house near Hildesheim, Germany, where she lives with her husband, her children and her dog.

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      Flesh & Blood - Katharina Gerlach

      First Story: The Angel

      Why does it have to be an angel? The doctor sitting on a chair beside the sickbed asked.

      I deserve it… The old man marked by cancer panted. His pale yellow skin stood in contrast to the snow white linen of his bed.

      But why an angel?

      Speaking exhausted the old man, so his answer came haltingly. Angels are creatures of light, but on earth they have bodies like humans. They are very beautiful and long-lived, at least two to three hundred years…

      The doctor thought that the old man's desire to find an angel would cost him his life. After all, everybody knew angels didn't exist — at least not on earth. The waiting hurts my one and only chance to prove that my subplantation theory is possible in the praxis. In that case, I'd loose ten years of research as well as my approbation. Anxiously, the doctor wiped sweat from his forehead and the slowly balding top of his head. Ten years I studied alchemies and magic, ten years of intensive studies… He tried for the umpteenth time to convince his employer of his suggestion. Wouldn't it be better to have another person at the ready for the subplantation just in case? We don't have much time left.

      Judd will bring him on time, the old man said before pain shook his emaciated body again. Devil … the pain … more morphine…

      Please, whoever, let him live until his would-be angel is here. I have to show the subplantation is working. He's my only chance to prove that it's possible to move a soul into a different body, the doctor begged silently.

      The old man's breathe rattled as he panted. His tortured body jerked and slumped back into the cushions. One of the many gadgets beside his bed beeped penetratingly. At that moment, the door opened and a beautiful nurse came in with fast steps. She walked to the bed, took a syringe prepared with morphine, added a sterile needle, and inserted the medication into the tube of the drip.

      Agonizingly slow, the drug entered the old man's veins and mingles with the blood that more

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