“and don’t pretend you didn’t know what I was

because you use vampires

the way medieval doctors use leeches

and don’t you dare bitch about feeling drained

because there’s enough poison in you

to swell a thousand of us to bursting, but then,

monsters are supposed to cry over their dinners

and you and I want so desperately to be monsters

and not just a couple of ex-Catholic suburban kids

with the right hair and bone structure

to carry off the clothes and the ghoul makeup”

— Danielle Willis, excerpt from “Kicking Omewenne”

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Photo of Kristen McMenamy by Max Vadul

Visionaire 7 - Black, Fall 1992