RU. Novella, 1996-1999.

Mystical thriller, action, philosophy, vampires.

This is a story about two vampires (a man and a young girl) in the modern town. The main hero of the novelette, Vlad (but not Dracula-Tsepesh!) exists as a vampire about 20 years. He is bored with his sensless existance and by endless bloody deathes for his feeding - but Vlad meets very young girl Elvira and falls in love with her. Elvira gets to know that Vlad is a vampire, she falls in love too and asks Vlad to make her a vampiress too. Vlad doesn't want to make her a vampiress, course he knows that the vampire's "life" is not so good and romantic, as Elvira thinks. But it was their (or her?) destiny, and finally Vlad makes her a vampiress. They love each other, they are almost happy, but Elvira is a stupid yang girl, and he makes two of her former friends a vampires too. The quantity of vampires in the town increases up to the critical level, and the vampire hunter Immortal Monk arrives to the town with his monks-soldiers. The bloody battle between vampires and Immortal Monk begins.

But during all the plot line it seems to Vlad (and later to Elvira too) that their life is unreal, it's only an illusion. They see the same strange dreams of another place. Maybe, they are a sacrifices of the crazy experiment? Or they are dying, and they escape from the death to this illusionary reality created by their own dying brains? And that is why Vlad gets to recognize some cinema and literary cliches in reality around him?

During the fighting against Immortal Monk, escaping from him, next battles and etc. Vlad found in himself and in Elvira some new extraordinary abilities. He must to trust in himself, that he can to fly, to turn into a mist, to regulate his temperature, to break some technique at the distance and etc. - and he'll realy be able to do such things! But finally Vlad and Elvira fell into the Monk's trap. The sun is rising, and it will burnt the vampires. At the last seconds Vlad and Elvira use auto-suggestion method, and their spirits dislocate to another reality where they meet an astral creature called Curator. Curator tells them, that they came to the next level of existance, they are free from their fears, hopes, attachments... and bodies. But Vlad and Elvira don't want to exist in this astral world, and they return to their bodies - but with new extra-abilities. They don't need no more blood for feeding, a sun can't burnt them, and etc... But their vampiric essence haven't changed!.. And is the realiry around a true reality? Or it's a next level of illusion?..

It's a very primitive plot line of the novelette. Really the novelette is much more complex, the necro-romantic mood and some philosophical and psychological elements and nuances are very important too.

Published 12 times from 2000 to 2020 (Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia).