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Tales of the Executioners

Joleene Naylor is the author of the glitter-less Amaranthine vampire universe, a world where vampires aren't for children. Comprised of a main series, a standalone prequel, and several short story collections, she has plans to continue expanding with a trilogy and standalone novels. In her spare time, Joleene is a freelance book cover designer and for-fun photographer. She maintains several blogs, full of odd ramblings, and occasionally updates her website at JoleeneNaylor.com. In what little time is left, she watches anime, plays PokemonGo, and works on her crooked Victorian house in Villisca, Iowa. Between her husband, family, and pets, she is never lonely, in fact, quite the opposite. Should she disappear, one might look for her on a beach in Tahiti, sipping a tropical drink and wearing a disguise. Twenty-nine short stories of love, death, heartbreak, and blood. Meet the Executioners, elite enforcers of the vampires’ laws. Walk with them through origin stories, follow them across the sea to the colonies, and run with them through the wilds, as they try to bring civilization to a land ruled by “day sleeper” clans. Fifteen interwoven stories tell the beginning of The Guild, set under the watchful - and sometimes malevolent - gaze of the ancient Malick, whose heavy shadow stretches even across the sea. Meet his favorite son, his willful daughter, his child-like pet, and many more whose jealousies, hatreds, and loves twist together to create consequences they can’t foresee.

Joleene Naylor · Horror
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186 Chs

Chapter 46: Kateesha Call of Blood, Part 2

Kateesha passed the turn for the Cotterill's plantation. There, playing house, lived Jorick's fledgling, Oren. Though he and his cold wife, Jesslynn, tried to hide the children, Kateesha knew what they were, what sin the Cotterills had committed. To make children immortal was an abomination, a breach of law so great that it commanded death to the perpetrator, though Kateesha had no intention of killing them, or their vampiric children. Not just because it might anger Jorick, but, in truth, she was more interested to let it play out; to let Jesslynn have her immortal dolls a child of five and a baby, too young yet to speak, trapped forever in perfect childhood. It would be amusing to see what came of it in a few years' time. Would their minds age, trapped in child-like bodies, or would they stay undeveloped, forever innocent? If it was the latter, Kateesha might try her hand at one. No doubt, Shawnine would like an immortal child. Something small to dote on and dress up.