It is such an honor that my fiction collection, A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FIENDS (Sam's Dot Publishing), and my nonfiction collection, ESOTERIA-LAND (Bear Manor Media), both have made the HWA's Bram Stoker Award PRELIMINARY BALLOT for works published in 2009. The FINAL BALLOT will be announced in a few weeks.
Wish me luck (I'll need it!) …. 
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An excerpt from Esoteria-Land by Michael McCarty.
Reprinted by permission of Bear Manor Media, P.O. Box 71426, Albany, GA 31708. http://bearmanormedia.bizland/id461.html
Back story: Just a few weeks before his untimely death, I had phoned Richard Laymon about doing an interview. The focus of the interview was going to be on his vampire books. I said something like: “It will be an up-close, in-depth look at all three of your vampire books.”
Dick chuckled and said, “Actually I wrote four. The first one was a young adult book that is no longer in print. But I wouldn’t want that title to appear in the interview.” (I think the book might be Nightmare Lake.)
On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2001, Richard Laymon passed away. It was a tremendous lost to the horror community. He was a gentleman and a master writer of horror and humor.
This special report is my tribute to Laymon. Since we weren’t able to do that fateful interview, his books will do the talking. The books that make up Laymon’s vampire legacy – The Stake, Bite, and The Traveling Vampire Show – are all well worth seeking out, as you’ll soon learn….
The Stake
by Richard Laymon
Publishing History:
Headline Books (UK), 6/13/1991, ISBN: 074723481, 6.99 pounds (paperback).
Zebra Books (US), 4/1995, out of print.
Pinnacle Books (US), 5/2000, ISBN: 0-7860-1258-7, $5.99, 507 pgs.
The Review:
His name is Lawrence Dunbar. He is a writer of horror fiction, the author of such spooky books as Dead of Night, Cut, The Beast, Madhouse, and fourteen other thrillers. He is making a comfortable living writing fiction because he is selling his books in both the United States and England.
The Stake starts out with Larry and his wife Jean going on a day trip with their friends Pete and Barbara to the ghost town of Sagebrush Flat, California.
In this abandoned town, the two couples find, tucked away in the shadows of a hotel, the mummified corpse of a young woman. She has a stake buried in her chest – or as Larry would write in his account of the story: “Somebody hammered a pointed shaft of wood through the heart of a woman. He left her inside a lidless coffin, and hid her corpse beneath the stairway of an abandoned hotel in the town of Sagebrush Flat.”
Larry gets dragged by the throat into a ghoulish mystery. Is this young lady a real vampire, finally stopped by a vampire-hunter – or the unfortunate victim of a crazed, deluded killer?
There is only one way to find out for sure, and that is for Larry to pull out the stake.
Interesting Real-Life Tidbits:
There is little doubt that Richard Laymon based Lawrence Dunbar on himself. Like Dunbar, he was writing books in the U.S. and the U.K. (at the time of the printing, his books were doing better overseas then in his own country).
Having met his wife Ann and his daughter Kelly, I would say they are both very similar to the fictional characters, Jean and Lane.
Plus, I have it on good authority that Pete and Barbara are based on friends of the Laymons who would go on trips with them. I suspect he chose the name Barbara so he could make a reference to Night of the Living Dead – no proof, just a very strong hunch.
Laymon told me on the phone that he was trying to get Leisure to re-release the book, but Zebra Books still had a contract with the novel. It was re-released instead through Pinnacle Books (a Kensington Publishing company that also owns Zebra Books) and it did very well.
Ranting and Raving:
The Stake was one of Laymon’s personal favorites – he mentioned it in numerous interviews as such. I imagine he wrote the book standing up because he was so inspired, so super-charged with the concept, he didn’t want to waste valuable seconds by taking the time to sit down.
Mike’s Blurb:
The Stake is Richard Laymon’s biggest and boldest vampire adventure. Don’t make the mis-stake (I know, bad pun) of not reading it.
Bite
by Richard Laymon
Publishing History:
Headline (UK), 5/8/97, ISBN: 0747251010, 6.99 pounds.
Leisure Books (US), 6/1999, ISBN: 0-8439-4550-8, $5.50, 378 pgs.
The Review:
Bite was easily one of the best horror novels of 1999. The story begins when the protagonist, Sam, gets a late-night visit from his former girlfriend Cat, who he hasn’t seen in ten years. She comes knocking at his door wearing only a silk robe.
It turns out that Cat is being victimized by a vampire named Elliot, and she wants Sam to hide in her closet with a stake and destroy him.
Sam sums up his own predicament: “Things had started fairly simple: weird but simple. I was supposed to ambush Cat’s vampire and kill it.”
Killing the vampire is the least of their worries. When they try to find a place to bury the stiff in the desert, they run into a psycho biker named Snow White. The rest of the book is a comedy of errors and terrors.
Interesting Real-Life Tidbits:
Don D’Auria, Leisure Books senior editor of horror and westerns, said this to me about Laymon and the book at the 2000 World Horror Convention: “I was really thrilled to be able to publish Dick. I loved his stuff and always have. I was one of those people buying his imports (from England, Australia and New Zealand) over the Internet.
“He’s a brilliant writer who couldn’t get a break from the New York publishers just because he was writing horror.
“The first book we did with him, Bite, was one of our top sellers ever. He just needed somebody to publish him in America.”
Ranting and Raving:
This book has great comical barbs and a reader-friendly, conversational narrative. Throw in a plot that twists and turns like a chiropractor’s nightmare and you have one weird and wild adventure.
Mike’s Blurb:
I loved every page of it. Californian Laymon is a hot writer in England, Australia and New Zealand, and after Bite he finally got some long overdue attention in America. Bite has bite – buy it!
The Traveling Vampire Show
by Richard Laymon
Publishing History:
Headline (UK), 6/1/2000 (hardback), 12/7/2000 (paperback), 17.99 pounds (hardback), 6.99 pounds (paperback), ISBN: 0747220522.
Cemetery Dance Publications (US), unsigned second edition with artwork by Alan M. Clark, ISBN: 1587670003, $40 (hardcover).
Leisure Books (US), 3/2001, ISBN: 0-8439-4850-7, $5.99, 391 pgs.
The Review:
THE TRAVELING VAMPIRE SHOW
Come and see – the one and only known VAMPIRE in captivity!
- VALERIA -
Gorgeous! Beguiling! Lethal!
So starts the text of a flyer tacked to power poles and trees all over the rural town of Grandville. It’s a hot August morning in 1963, and with this sexy, scary announcement of a one-night-only, adults-only event outside of town, things are starting to get hotter.
For three teenage friends, this is definitely a performance that cannot be missed. Although they’re under-age and the show is at midnight (they have a curfew), the teen pals are determined to attend at any cost.
The rest of the day, night and book revolve around the trio’s adventures and discoveries. As midnight approaches, so does the terror.
Interesting Real-Life Tidbits:
Laymon re-read Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes and Stephen King’s novella The Body, just to make sure his story would not be too much like theirs.
Ranting and Raving:
Take Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, Stephen King’s The Body (which was turned into the movie, Stand by Me), Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life, Dan Simmons’ Summer of Night, and the movie Matinee – then throw in plenty of horny adolescent fantasies (these are teenagers, after all, and that’s what’s on their minds all the time) and a generous sprinkling of humor and nostalgia (à la the early Sixties).
Toss all that into a high-speed blender and grind it together and you’ll end up with a macabre masterpiece like this. Richard Laymon won a posthumous Bram Stoker Award for this book.
Mike’s Blurb:
This is a coming-of-age story with fangs – yet another vampire masterpiece by Richard Laymon.
Links:
Leisure Books: www.dorchesterpub.com
Headline: http://hodderheadline.uk.com
Cemetery Dance: www.cemeterydance.com
Pinnacle: www.kensingtonbooks.com
Top 10 Horror & Science-Fiction Movies of 2009
1. Zombieland
2. District 9
3. Orphan
4. Drag Me To Hell
5. Coraline (3D)
6. The Road
7. The Uninvited
8. Paranormal Activity
9. The Stepfather
10. Jennifer’s Body
Honorable Mentions:
My Bloody Valentine 3D
Whiteout
Please note: Because of my wedding/honeymoon, followed by Thanksgiving/Christmas chaos, I didn’t get to see Avatar, and The Lovely Bones wasn’t released to a city near me in 2009.
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Michael McCarty is the author of the vampire novel, Liquid Diet (www.khpindustries.com), and many other books. His latest story collection, A Little Help From My Fiends from Sam’s Dot Publishing, features twenty collaborative tales, including such undead yarns as “Lucania,” co-written with Sandy DeLuca; “The Substitute,” co-written with Michael Louis Calvillo; and “Dracula Has Risen From The Sofa (Plumped-Up Couch Potato Upgrade),” co-written with GravesideTales.com columnist Mark McLaughlin. You’ll find Fiends lurking at www.horror-mall.com. For more information on Michael’s various projects, visit www.myspace.com/monsterbook. If you have any questions or comments, contact Michael at monstermike69@hotmail.com
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VINTAGE VIDEO VAMPIRES
by Michael McCarty
Hello, I’m Michael McCarty, author of the vampire novel Liquid Diet, and this is the second installment of my vampire column here at GravesideTales.com. Vampires are now hotter than ever, thanks to the smashing success of the new Twilight movie and the vampire series True Blood on HBO. But there are plenty of great older vampire movies, too. Vampires weren’t born yesterday! Let’s take a look at a few vintage video vampires….
VAMPIRES A GO-GO: Must-See Classics from the ‘60s – ‘80s
Vampire Rating System:
**** (four bats) Classic
*** (three bats) Good
** (two bats) Fair
* (one bat) Sucks
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, 1964, American International Pictures
Starring Vincent Price as Robert Morgan
Directed by Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow
Based on Richard Matheson's I Am Legend
86 minutes (unrated)
Black and White
Vampire Rating: **
Along with Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire, Richard Matheson's novella I Am Legend is one of the most intriguing, imaginative and influential vampire stories ever written. Even George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead was inspired by this book.
The Last Man On Earth was the first movie adaptation of I Am Legend. Vincent Price is the sole survivor of a mysterious plague that has turned the rest of the planet into vampires. After the sun sets, he barricades himself against the bloodsuckers who surround his home. During the day he gathers garlic, makes stakes and kills all the sleeping vampires he can find.
Price was perfect for the role. I especially enjoy the scenes with him getting drunk and playing loud jazz music to drown out the noise of the vampires trying to break in. Memories of the past, however, still plague him.
A creepy and atmospheric thriller despite its low budget. One of the eeriest moments occurs when Price is driving through the streets cluttered with dead bodies.
In 1971, the film was remade with a bigger budget and in color as The Omega Man with Charlton Heston. But that movie was even further away from Matheson's material and the vampiric elements were watered down. Yet another remake, I Am Legend, came out in 2007 with a blockbuster budget and Will Smith – but the movie seemed more about zombies than vampires.
The Last Man On Earth is recommended, but even more recommended is reading Matheson's book.
MARTIN, 1978, a Laurel Production, distributed by Libra Films
Starring John Amplas as Martin
Directed, written and edited by George A. Romero
95 minutes
Rated R
Color and Black & White
Vampire Rating: ****
George Romero is famous for his zombie movies (Night, Dawn, Day and Diary Of The Dead) and Stephen King flicks (Creepshow, The Dark Half), but his only vampire film, Martin, is one of the most gruesome, goriest and greatest vampire movies ever made. If you can stomach graphic violence, then this is definitely a must-see vampire film for you.
Martin (John Amplas) is a modern-day vampire. He doesn't have fangs, he doesn't turn into a bat and he can walk in direct sunlight without being destroyed. A blood junkie instead of a bloodsucker, he uses hypodermic needles and razor blades to acquire his fix. When he doesn't get blood for a while, "things get shaky."
He lives in a small town outside Pittsburgh (filmed in the seedier areas of Braddock, PA) and resides with religious Uncle Cuba (Lincoln Maazel) who warns, "First, I will save your soul. Then, I will destroy you."
Throughout the film, you are not sure if Martin is really a vampire or some kind of sicko who only imagines he is one. There is a series of fantasy sequences which could support the argument either way.
This project was Romero's labor of love. Not only is it one his personal favorites, but his future wife (Christine Forrest) is also in the production. Amplas does an incredible job with the Martin character. At first you are repulsed by what he does, but later you feel very sympathetic toward him.
Tom Savini (who also appeared in From Dusk Till Dawn) does a great job on- and off-screen. On-screen he plays Forrest's jerk boyfriend, and off-screen he did the gritty and realistic make-up effects. It was the first teaming of Savini and Romero, and they would make many more horror movies together over the years.
THE HUNGER, 1983, MGM/UA
Starring Catherine Deneuve as Miriam Blaylock
David Bowie as John Blaylock
Susan Sarandon as Sarah Roberts
Directed by Tony Scott
Based on Whitley Strieber's The Hunger
100 minutes
Rated R
Color
Vampire Rating: ****
The word "vampire" is never spoken on the screen nor does it appear in Whitley Strieber's novel, but even so, this film and the book are favorites of vampire fans.
A little too arty for its own good, The Hunger has stood the test of time. This visually striking and sexy thriller is even more chilling today than when it was first released, when one considers the threat of AIDS.
The story concerns Miriam Blaylock, a 2,000-year-old vamp who never ages, but her lovers eventually do. Her latest husband, John, starts to prematurely age (in a haunting sequence, while waiting in the lobby of the hospital he ages 40 years, thanks to superb make-up effects by Dick Smith).
John seeks help from Dr. Sarah Roberts, who has been doing research to reverse the aging process. Mr. Blaylock deteriorates so quickly and becomes so feeble that Miriam entombs him inside a crate next to all her other ancient lovers, who are between the worlds of the living and the dead. She promises to visit often, but she doesn't.
Unfortunately, Dr. Roberts gets caught in the middle of all of this. Entranced by the enigmatic Miriam, the doctor becomes her latest lover/victim during a very hot love scene, beautifully captured with a soft-focus lens and a driving, seductive film score.
Once you see The Hunger, it will crawl under your skin. The group Bauhaus performs their Goth-rock classic "Bela Lugosi's Dead" at the beginning. Showtime had a spin-off series in 1997, produced by Tony and Ridley Scott.
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Michael McCarty is the author of the vampire novel, Liquid Diet (www.khpindustries.com), and thirteen other books. His latest story collection, A Little Help From My Fiends from Sam’s Dot Publishing, features twenty collaborative tales, including such undead yarns as “Lucania,” co-written with Sandy DeLuca; “The Substitute,” co-written with Michael Louis Calvillo; and “Dracula Has Risen From The Sofa (Plumped-Up Couch Potato Upgrade),” co-written with GravesideTales.com columnist Mark McLaughlin. You’ll find Fiends lurking at www.horror-mall.com. For more information on Michael’s various projects, visit www.myspace.com/monsterbook. If you have any questions or comments, you can contact Michael at monstermike69@hotmail.com.
VAMPIRE MANIA
by Michael McCarty
Hello, my name is Michael McCarty and I’m the author of the vampire book, LIQUID DIET.
For GravesideTales.com, I’ll be writing this column, VAMPIRE MANIA, in which I will interview vampire writers and review vampire movies and books.
For this first installment, I’ve interviewed Terrie Leigh Relf, co-author of the vampire book, BLOOD JOURNEY (with Henry Lewis Sanders), which was published by Sam’s Dot Publishing (http://www.samsdotpublishing.com). Terrie is also the editor of HUNGUR MAGAZINE, a vampire magazine also published by Sam’s Dot Publishing.
INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE WRITER:
BLOOD JOURNEYS WITH TERRIE LEIGH RELF
Vampire Mania: What was the first vampire book or movie that had a major impact on you?
Terrie Leigh Relf: I grew up watching DARK SHADOWS, SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE, and shows like that. All in black-and-white, too. Bela Lugosi and all he spawned. I actually forget which book hooked me…. I know I read Bram Stoker’s DRACULA, but it was probably something by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro or Tanith Lee that totally sold me. I’ve always been a fan of dark supernatural literature, and by the time I’d graduated from high school, I’d already read thousands of books — and comic books, too.
VM: Are you a fan of TRUEBLOOD, TWILIGHT or any of the Laurell K. Hamilton books? Why is vampire fiction so hot these days?
TLR: I’ve read TRUEBLOOD and the TWILIGHT series as well as several Laurel K. Hamilton books, and would have to say there are probably as many reasons for vampire fiction being “so hot” these days as there are people reading it. I think the TWILIGHT series was/is popular due to it being more accessible to the YA crowd — not that they aren’t sophisticated readers … but given that the vamps, etc. are teens, brings it into that realm. As to TRUEBLOOD and Hamilton’s work: Since Anne Rice stopped doing vampire fiction, there has been a gap … people who read her wanted more.
VM: You are the editor of the vampire magazine, HUNGUR. How did you get that editor gig? How many issues have you edited so far? How can vampire fans get the magazine? And, what kind of vampire fiction are you looking for?
TLR: HUNGUR was actually born out of an ongoing dialogue with Tyree Campbell, the Managing Editor of Sam’s Dot Publishing. If I remember correctly, we were both kvetching about the lack of markets for vampire fiction and poetry, and since SDP began as a science-fiction venue back in the late 90’s with ProMart, when our friend and mentor James B. Baker was still on the planet, we discussed expanding the paradigm, which was something we both wanted to see. The speculative aspect of “What if there were vampires from other worlds?” expanded into our guidelines, and HUNGUR was born. I’ve been the editor since its inception, and while Tyree Campbell is managing editor, I get to “do my thing” with interjections by him. I’m currently reading for Issue No. 9, so since there are two issues per year, we’re going on year five.
Vampire fans can purchase HUNGUR at www.samsdotpublishing.com. When a new issue is available, you can click on the table of contents icon. An alternate way, which leads to the same place, is to click on the “Purchase Center” icon.
What am I looking for? Don’t you just love editors who respond to that question with an “I-know-a-HUNGUR-story-when-I-see-it”? Seriously, though, we want people to stretch their imaginations beyond the usual tropes. While we want ancient vampires, it’s more that we want vampires from ancient cultures than just vampires who have lived a long time. Sumerian vampires. Vampires from ancient China and Japan. Vampires of folklore and legend from non-western cultures. That sort of thing. We also want alien vampires. That would be vamps from outer space. They don’t need to be humanoid … they can be writhing masses of tentacles and such. They can live on energy, too — not just blood. They may be shapeshifters, too.
I receive a lot of excellent stories set in current or historical times that just don’t fit with our mission. Many writers — and I include poets here, too, as we also publish five to eight poems per issue — will email me with an idea, and I’ll say “run with it.” Humor is good, too. Even satire. Van Helsing material isn’t usually accepted unless it has an unusual twist.
VM: You co-wrote the book BLOOD JOURNEY with Henry Lewis Sanders. What was it like, writing with another author? Do you have plans to write a sequel?
TLR: Ah yes, BLOOD JOURNEY. I loved working with Henry, and we’re actually working on the next book in the series, which will probably be published by SDP in 2010 or so. Hopefully. We’re also planning a third volume — maybe more.
One of the great things about Henry is that he is one of the first people to publish my work, along with ProMart, back in the late 90’s.
Collaborating is awesome when it works well, like it always has with Henry. I’m also collaborating on a novel with Edward Cox, but it’s on the backburner at the moment. Then you and I have collaborated … I think for those of us who are “chameleons” it is “easier” than with other people. We are able to get into each other’s heads, mimic each other’s style, etc. Each writer brings a skill set to the table, and in my case, I find that I’ve learned new skills in the process. It’s challenging, but energizing, too. Sharing minds and words like this.
I couldn’t work with a control freak or someone who had a vision and just brought me along for the ride. It’s effortless effort when it’s a good match — but don’t get me wrong, there are still plot and character issues to resolve, lots of back-and-forth about what works and what doesn’t. I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t meaningful to me, or to the other person. It’s a discovery process, too. Like we’re taking each other on an exploration of the caves of Io and don’t know what we’ll find there — or create. I like that. Synchronicity. Serendipity, etc.
VM: BLOOD JOURNEY is truly a blood journey, which travels through England, the United States and Greece. Why did you choose the locations in the book?
TLR: Good question. I think they just popped into our heads…. Seriously.
VM: What is it about vampire literature that you like writing?
TLR: It’s a compulsion, really. It’s funny, though, as I love to read crime thrillers and so forth, but I don’t have any desire to write them. With vampire fiction, I HAVE to write it. Not only vampires, but other proverbial supernatural characters. The supposed immortality quotient, for one, appeals to me as I have enough poetry, story, and book ideas to keep me busy for several lifetimes. Also the personal growth aspect. I believe that some vampires may have considerable wisdom. I’m big with ghosts, spirits, beings from alternate dimensions because I’ve “danced” with them my entire life. Monsters fascinate me … the human monster, too.
VM: What are the origins of The Church of the Dark Mother in BLOOD JOURNEY? How important is it to the novel?
TLR: What?! You’ve never heard of it? You never know, you may have a priestess of the goddess Hecate, or Hekate, living next door to you. The dark arts exist, as do those based on the light. Yin-yang. Remember in THE WIZARD OF OZ, when Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, asked Dorothy: “Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?”
VM: Do you allow your characters the luxury of taking the story in an unexpected direction, or do you stick to the original outline?
TLR: Actually, I’m a character-driven writer. I believe plot emerges from the characters living it. While I do get plot ideas independently, the characters emerge and take over. So, recently, one of my biggest challenges was to plot out two novels for presentations. My usual modus operandi is to write the book and deal with plot “issues” as I go along or after the draft(s) are “done”. Sometimes, though, the entire plot unveils before me. Usually, I just “take dictation” from the voices in my head.
VM: What advice would you give to beginning vampire writers?
TLR: I should write a book about this…. Okay, here’s a short non-hierarchical list. There are always exceptions, though, as sometimes people will just think, hey, I want to write a vampire story, and voila, they write an awesome one with no specific preparation. Sometimes, all that study and research can disguise itself as procrastination…. Or, perhaps procrastination hides itself in study and research. Avoidance, etc.
1. Trust your process.
2. Watch all the movies — yes, all — and not only in English or subtitled.
3. Read all the books, stories, graphic novels and comic books you can get your hands on.
4. Subscribe to HUNGUR and buy BLOOD JOURNEY (shameless promotional soundbite!).
5. Consider what you can bring to the ongoing discussion/genre. In other words, how do you view vampires that may be different than others — trust that process! At the end of a recent HWA con, both Yarbro and another author were asked a similar question, and while I don’t remember who said what, as they were both offering their thoughts and going back-and-forth, it was something like the following: Don’t copy anyone’s work — and especially don’t copy your own. Innovation, etc.
6. Join a writer’s group — online or face-to-face — or both
7. Develop a thick skin — and not just because vampires often have fangs … but because it’s essential to share your work with others and while some new writers get accepted right off the bat (no pun intended), and may never receive a rejection, rejection is the norm.
8. One of my many mentors told me this (sorry, I forget which one as I’ve been blessed with a long line of them): Successful writers may have talent, but they also have persistence. I tell people that every rejection brings you closer to acceptance.
9. Focus on expanding your horizons as a writer all the time. One of the reasons I love being a writer is, there’s always something new to learn.
10. Be humble, but be honest. If you’re a good writer, admit it…
11. Sketch out your characters. Play games with them. Invite them into your mind … to cross your mental threshold.
12. Read legends and history and such.
VM: Who was your favorite character to write in BLOOD JOURNEY?
TLR: I’m afraid to say, as the other characters may have their feelings hurt. Seriously, though, since Henry and I both worked together on all the characters, I got to know each one rather intimately. When we were “finished” with the book, though, I think I really missed Guenther the most. He is the character who offers parting words at the book’s close, too, so perhaps it’s because his words lingered for me. Having a favorite character to write is often a complex scenario as we may not like them at all. Like Cassandra, one of the High Priestesses, for example. I did not like her at all. I LOATHED her, but writing her was rather fun. Hatshepsut still remains a mystery to me — but that is her nature. She is also a High Priestess, but of another sort. Truth be told, I did not like Henry’s girlfriend, Sarena, that much.
To find out more about Terrie and her work, visit www.myspace.com/terrieleighrelf.
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