Wow, a lot going on there, so much I had to do a reread. Usually that’s a bad thing, but in this case it was just that you layered in a couple of themes. Very nicely done.

I hate the makeup jobs they do on corpses. Burn me, please, without any application of cosmetics. Remember me and not my dead body with makeup.

If he’d sacrificed his immortal soul and died, with a note, then how could she stake him?
still, awesome bit of writing!

He sacrificed his immortal soul and is now undead, is the idea—thus the stake. Standard vampire lore, per the tags.

ah, i was thinking he sacrificed his mortal soul (human) to become immortal (vamp). the other way around. you said he’d sacrificed his immortal soul so i thought he;d given up vampirism and become human and died and was at the end of his now mortal life.

I meant “immortal soul” in the Catholic sense. Not “immortality.”

Loved the story, wrote a sequel (after THX, of course)

I want to look like a hot china doll when I go. Remember me as the only corpse you ever really wanted to have sex with. haha j/k— that’s f-ed up. Great story.

Refreshing spin on the vampire glut that’s been around the past couple years. Nice emotion and enough intrigue for a good ficly.

This was beautifully done. I loved the twist at the end (I tend to not read tags till after I’ve read the story), so the guilt and questions and all the horrible baggage that comes with a suicide became so much more for me after the ending.