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Indigo Sky with Stars
Trancing Miranda Scene 8 | Miranda slouched in the passenger seat of the cushy, black sedan. Outside, the fog was drifting in off the water, gray and…
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Barbara Graver
Quietly as a Vampire
Trancing Miranda Scene 7 | Nick looked up from his laptop to see Miranda standing in the doorway. She was unusually light on her feet, moving almost as…
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Barbara Graver
The Energy of Iron
Trancing Miranda Sc 6 | A Vampire Story | Nick caught the fae girl before she hit the floor and put her down on the sofa. After elevating her legs on a…
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Barbara Graver
A Room Bordered by Night
Trancing Miranda Scene 5 | The vampire’s house was big and modern and so clean it sparkled. Miranda stood in the middle of the huge open concept living…
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Barbara Graver
Blood on the Tiles
Trancing Miranda Scene 4 | Trigger warning aftermath of violent attack. Miranda opened her eyes cautiously. The world blurred, then cleared. The vampire…
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Barbara Graver
Something Was Wrong
Trancing Miranda Scene 3 | Trigger Warning: Violence happens off page but aftermath is graphic. Nick tuned out the donor chattering into his left ear…
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Barbara Graver
A Real Blue-Blood Vampire
Scene 2 | Miranda O’Malley was at the Black Goddess, sitting at her usual table, sipping a tall milky green glass of New Viridian. Sketcher was late, as…
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Barbara Graver
Not Full Fae, But Close
Trancing Miranda Scene 1 | It was the first time Nick Markovich had been to the Black Goddess in over ten years, but it was exactly as he remembered it…
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Barbara Graver
On Rewriting My Vampire Story
And the death of the anti-romance | For me, writing fiction is a way of bringing shadowy things into the light. Sometimes I like that. Sometimes I…
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Barbara Graver
Sharing My Vampire Story on Substack
I am going to be sharing chapter one of my vampire story, Trancing Miranda, here on Substack very soon...
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Barbara Graver
Creating a Vampire Magic System
Genre Fiction | “Noir or humorous, hard-boiled or cozy, mysteries are the descendants of morality plays, and in an increasingly ambiguous world, they…
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Barbara Graver
Dark Fiction and the Advice I Was Given
A writer's workshop and how it helped | I wrote several manuscripts during an especially dark time in my life. And to this day, even though I am a very…
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Barbara Graver
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