Contemplation at Dusk

[a_contemplative_life]

I must confess that I'm beginning to feel badly for what I'm doing to Oskar. Poor kid!

[drakkar]

Damn, you're good. THIS is horror....

[covenant6452]

Yeah! A shot in the arm!
That chapter was awesome and made me realize something.
The film is the wonderful love story woven together with elements of horror perfectly, which is why we love it. But the book is a much darker world with a half-headed zombie in tented hospital gown wandering the streets, a boy pulping the twitching zombies head in the dark. Selling blood, drug use and the perverse sexual content remind me of a genre of writing big in the 80's and 90's called "splatterpunk". It is just "extreme horror", the chunky bits. It's actually been around since the 50's, I believe the guy who wrote "I Am Legend", Richard Matheson is regarded as the creator.
The extreme tone of the horror in the novel makes me think that JLA may have been a fan as well. I think LTROI the novel could be considered "splatterpunk-ish", the horror of it anyways, though I would consider his writing a more gentle version of it. Less "heavy metal."
This chapter had the elements.

And her eyes were dead . . . lifeless and doll-like

, that got to me, a_c_l, you knew it would! And the sharks teeth and the burning flesh.
This chapter made me realize that at the heart of this story, is a monster. I think I have forgotten that and have been keeping my fiction a little "kid-safe".
Yes Oskar and Eli are in love, but Eli has a killer inside her as a_c_l has reminded me with this chapter (and the last couple leading up to it now that I think of it).
Now that Oskar has been turned in my world, some blood will be spilt.
How will they deal with it? That's going to be the challenge.

[HonzaP]

hey you, my heart was beating like a machine, this was really full of adrenaline, I almost fear that Eli would die (I wouldn't survive that), great work really

[hillerr]

Wow. I held my breath wondering if Eli would make it. Totally enthralling.

[gary13136]

I guess Oskar is fortunate to have white-blonde hair. At the rate this story is going, it will be streaked with grey before long.

Chapter 9 got me to thinking about something. In spite of her relationship with Oskar, Eli still is bothered by her most serious problem: the reluctance to kill, and the desire to hibernate in order not to kill. She's much like an anorexic in that she believes that eating less is the best thing for her. It doesn't work for the anorexic, and it doesn't work for a vampire either.

So in some way, this problem has to be conquered--or else.

I guess the solution lies somewhere within the realm of fantasy; where the impossible is always possible.

[a_contemplative_life]

Chapter 10 - short & sweet.

http://let-the-right-one-in.com/fancontent/ff/chapter-10-elis-dream

[drakkar]

I have the feeling you're up to something..

[a_contemplative_life]

I have the feeling you're up to something..

Who, me? Nah . . . it's all an illusion. Just a dream.

[covenant6452]

I never know where you're going next...only that it'll be worth the short wait between.