2006 June
3KB
121 words

Fourteen lines in three stanzas, unrhymed.   Nick never accuses Janette of complicity in his condition.

"a wound he wears because she so wanted him"

Responses:
8

2005 December
8KB
667 words

Seventeen pentameter quintains, rhymed.   His mother's murder has shadowed Doctor Chung's entire life.

"a heart can miss what it never possessed"

Responses:
7

2003 August
4KB
224 words

Five pentameter sestets, rhymed.  Janette contemplates the choice she will have to make when Nick regains his humanity.

"Kill him. Convert him. Or make him forget."

Responses:
8

2002 August
4KB
155 words

Five tetrameter quintains, unrhymed.  Nick finds strength in the thought that he is not the first vampire to seek his lost humanity.

"those unknown saints who succeeded / in escaping this life alive"

Responses:
3

2000 June
6KB
290 words

Ten pentameter quatrains, rhymed.  While interrogating the suspect in "Dead Issue," Nick identifies his struggle with hers.

"I cannot tell you how time seems to slow, / watching that flaming stake strike home again"

Responses:
5

1999 August
12KB
1,269 words

Nine pentameter 18-line stanzas, unrhymed.  One night in the endless parade of nights preceding the "Partners of the Month" flashbacks, Janette and Nick host a party.

"so like the consuming love he offered / which she had just begun to learn to fear"

Responses:
4

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