I Want A Simple, Ordinary

I Was Planning On Starting A New File On My Computer With The Title "phrases That Sound One Way To Witches But Mean Something Else To Vampires.

She Was Like A Camera That Had Been Chronically Out Of Focus Until Someone Came By And Twisted The Lenses Into Alignment.

Matthew Kept Hinting That His Desire - For Blood, Chiefly- Was So Strong That It Put Everything Else At Risk. But Vampires Weren’t The Only Creatures Who Had To Manage Such Strong Impulses. Much Of What Qualified As Magic Was Simply Desire In Action. Witchcraft Was Different- That Took Spells And Rituals. But Magic? A Wish, A Need, A Hunger Too Strong To Be Denied- These Could Turn Into Deeds When They Cross A Witch’s Mind.

Occasio Praeceps, Experimentum Periculosum, Iudicium Difficile."..' Opportunity Is Fleeting, Experiment Dangerous, And Judgement Difficult.

These Days Vampires Gravitated Toward Particle Accelerators, Projects To Decode The Genome, And Molecular Biology. Once They Had Flocked To Alchemy, Anatomy, And Electricity. If It Went Bang, Involved Blood, Or Promised To Unlock The Secrets Of The Universe, There Was Sure To Be A Vampire Around.