Writing Wednesday - Parisian Nightlife
Welcome back, everybody. We've reached your next Writing Wednesday, and today I wanted to share yet another piece from a project that has been on the back burner for a while. This story is part of a short story collection I began around the time I fell in love with the imagery of plague doctors. Following my flash fiction piece, The Plague Demon of Prague , I started fleshing out the universe a little. I turned the plague doctor therein into a member of a larger order of men and women dedicated to combating the vampire menace, collectively called The Scourge. Considering these stories take place in the early 1600s, the prominence of many female warriors was delightful to write. After all, who would suspect that a woman in that time could fend off supernatural horrors with the best of them? In this story, the main character is one of the highest ranking members of this vampire hunting order's Paris branch. I wanted to show her, as a middle-aged woman in the upper reaches...