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Paranormal Romance Blues appears in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance. It has a nonseries narrator, with cameos by Cassandra DuCharme and Aaron Darnell.

Plot[]

Tiffany convinces Melanie that they should go to a vampire bar. Both are half-demons and aware of the supernatural world, but Melanie assumes it's just a gimmicky human place.

When they arrive they think they find a dead body but it is just a performance artist drumming up business for the bar. They meet several different men and Tiffany goes out on a "smoke break" with one of them. After half an hour, Melanie finds her unconscious in the alley.

Cassandra and Aaron appear. They are hunting a vampire, and mistake one of Melanie's suitors for the culprit before snagging the actual vamp on a murder spree. They apologize to Melanie.

One of the suitors - a not-so-fake FBI agent on the same serial killer trail that Cassandra and Aaron were following - has to go to the hospital. While Melanie rides with him in the ambulance, he asks her out. She confirms that he is most definitely ignorant of the supernatural world before she agrees.

Characters[]

  • Melanie Mancini- Narrator. a half-demon with superhearing. An ad-copy writer.
  • Tiffany - Melanie's friend. Into the romanticism of vampires. Low-level ice demon.
  • Wallace - Melanie's ex. A Voudon priest obsessed with vampires
  • Jason - another of Melanie's ex. A druid who wanted to pick up chicks.
  • Miguel Carter - FBI agent who seems like he should be fake. Human.
  • Aaron Darnell - a vampire working with Cassandra. Disguised as "Adrian," a visiting construction worker
  • Cassandra DuCharme - vampire, council delegate. Red hair and green eyes, appears around forty.
  • Unnamed rogue vampire

References[]



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