Had a bit of fun stringing together the tweets from the first week of #Tweets4Blogs. Each participant’s lines are in green, click on their names to visit them. The prompt on Twitter was:
And here is the story…
70 yr old Ree held Of Mice & Men as she skewered the vamp with her walking stick. “It helps when they underestimate you.”
โYou know,โ said Lisa, โyouโre right. They think youโre an easy target thenโฆ Wham! Splat! Poof! Itโs fun.โ Everyone turned to stare. โWell, Iโm just saying.โ
โLisa, please do not launch into your โShe was alone. Scared. Confronted with an evil she had only read about in books. She put down Memoir of the First Slayer and opened the freezer, knowing now just how to kill that blood sucker in the porchโฆ.โ story again.โ
โIโm not. Itโs just,โ she gestured to the pile of dust under Reeโs walking stick, โlook at that! She nailed the littleโฆโ
โWhen you say you nailed the little f*****, are we still talking of Sunday’s bloodfest or completing 50 Shades for the club?โ Geoff asked.
โWas that necessary?โ Vanessa chided.
โIโm really sorry about this,โ Norah covered her eyes with one hand and staked a vamp with the other.
“We’re not helping anyone by sparing vampires’ feelings,โ Sarrah W. said, โLook, had Darcy spoken up about Wickham, he could have saved Lydia.”
โI donโt remember anyone asking you to chime in. We decided not to read Pride and Prejudice. Let it go.โ Sue said.
โOh, I see, I suppose Geoffโs โ50 Shades of Shitโ is a more worthy read?โ Georgia considered this a moment. โYou know, that actually might be interesting.โ She saw the looks of alarm and shrugged. โBetter than the original.โ
โCan we please get back to choosing more weapons for tonight?โ Allie pleaded. โItโs only a few hours until sunrise.โ She gazed at all the stakes lying across the grassโoak, mahogany, lots of pine.
Geoff crossed his arms and gestured to Allie. โSeems someone is not opposed to my choice of reading material.โ
โOh I donโt know,โ said Allie as she selected a stake from the pile of assorted weaponry, โsometimes a banana is simply fruit.โ
Irene tiptoed around a gravestone. โFriday night, at midnight, members of the book club stopped reading.โ
โGeez!โ Cynthia jumped. โWill you stop whispering to yourself, Irene? You startled the hell out of me!โ
โYeah, it is a bit creepy, you stalking your fellow book club members,โ Hope added.
โCreepy?โ Kate asked.
Ruth raised an eyebrow. โAs opposed to, say, walking around in the dead of night staking blood-sucking vampires?โ
โI suppose it could be considered creepy but it doesnโt seem that way to me. Not anymore.โ Helenย straightened her garlic necklace. โIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a half decent book club be in search of vampires to hunt.โ
โIt only makes sense,โ Eric agreed, โAfter all, books are a collection of paper made from wood pulp. The same wood used to make stakes. Used to vanquish the undead.โ
โWhat he said,โ Luccia grinned.
โSo…umโฆโ Charli adjusted the bloody wooden stake in her hand and asked Barbara, “Which book did you say we’re discussing this weekend?”
โAre we done with Eat, Pray, Love already? I keep losing track what with the hunting and all. And, to be honest,โ Sacha said, โI havenโt found time to finish it.โ
โRight. That reminds me.โ J.D. threw Sacha her copy of Eat, Pray, Love and a garlic stake, โgives Eat, Pray, Love a whole new meaning, hey?!โ
โWe finished that last week. On to the Twilight series now,โ Amber laughed. โGrab your UV lights, people, we have some Suckers to kill. That book might be on to something, maybe they DO sparkle.โ
โI donโt think so,โ Barbara rolled her eyes. โLetโs just hunt, okay?โ
โI hunt for stories hidden in moonlight,โ Katsyarina started singing, โI crave for answers even with a bite, a kiss’ll come with page of our love, I wrote what you read tonight!โ
โKeep it down, Kat! Youโll give us away!โ Loni hissed.
โHey, at least she kills the damn things,โ J.D. said, โWhatโs the rule? Okayโฆrules? Two things are unacceptable in the Yorkshire bookclub: eating next to a book and coming across a vampire and leaving it alive. She does neither so let her alone.โ
Katsyarina smiled, โThanks, love.โ
โOf course,โ J.D. winked.
Sarah, being the newest member of the book club, had stayed out of the way and watched throughout the night. As the sun cast its first streaks of orange in the sky, a vampire appeared in front of her. She slid a copy of Jane Eyre in her purse and asked Ree if killing him was technically murder considering he was already dead. Ree smiled and tossed Sarah her walking stick.

You all are awesome. This was fun. ๐
Hope you have some sparks of inspiration from your fantastic tweets so far. Have you searched for yourself yet? Did you find anything to expand?
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