![]() ![]() The magic of this story is how Russell makes these undead vampires feel human. ![]() For the moment, lemons offer some relief. ![]() Still, these vampire vegetarians are left with an unquenchable thirst. “Human marriages amuse me,” he thinks, “the brevity of the commitment and all the ceremony that surrounds it.” After his “early years on the blood,” when Clyde met Magreb she convinced him that attacking people does nothing to relieve hunger. In the enchanting title story, Russell conjures a vampire named Clyde, whom most people mistake for “a small, kindly Italian grandfather.” He spends his days hanging out at Santa Francesca’s Lemon Grove in Italy, waiting for his wife, Magreb, to change back from a bat. ![]()
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