So… everyone loves Vampires! In fact, we just can’t stay away from vampires! Hey… I was reading a Vampire story and then I heard some Vampire music and then I decided that this is what my short story is going to be about.
Does any of it make sense? I guess not… Okay… let’s start again.
I was pondering for over a week now, agonising really, what kind of short story I should write. Now as I mentioned before, I am not good with short stories… I tend to babble on and on and on until I have a thousand pages of words… or something like that. So writing one is a real challenge… and what one was going to be about is equally torturous, I dare say!
And suddenly it clicked. I could take a swing at a short Vampire story… I’m concentrating on origins since that is the most moot point in Vampire mythology or theories. I found a curious little tidbit of information, it involved Eve as being the second woman that was made… Mind-boggling? Yes I know. Apparently the first woman was created from dust same as Adam and when Adam insisted that she should always submit, she argued that she was made from same stuff as him and so they should be equal. After this Lilith (for that was her name, or so I read) spoke the holy name of God and disappeared from Eden. At this point God made Eve from the rib of Adam. It is said that Lilith became the mother of demons and other creatures that fought against God. Hence the good and evil which are always in battle between each other. And the good always wins, or so we think.
From a feminist point of view, we would say that it was quite unfair to Lilith to demand that she always submit her will to Adam. Is ‘evil’ simply misunderstood? Rejected because that is not how God wants things? But then, if God really didn’t want these things to exist and God is all powerful, it would be as simple as wishing them away and they would never exist at all. From this conclusion… God created evil… so that we may know the difference? I don’t know… but it’s something that I’m going to try to explore in my, hopefully, short story.
Wish me luck!
