Watching the vamp gang slaughter another teenage runaway, Grandpa only shook his head.
“One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires,” said Grandpa.
Edgar didn’t mind. They kept a shop near the train station, where they sold crosses and stakes. Even garlic t-shirts had briefly been a popular item. Garlic didn’t work on the local vampires, of course, but the tourists didn’t need to know.
Grandpa’s triangular, shark-like teeth tore flesh from the tourist’s leg. A perfect medium rare, and heavily slathered with Toum—a Lebanese garlic sauce—in the traditional Ghoul way.
100 words. Inspired by this week’s Friday Fictioneers prompt:
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Grandpa isn’t actually related to the Frog brothers.
A regular smorgasbord of humanity for vampires and ghouls alike. Yuck, and yet very imaginative!
The garlic sauce does make it taste less yucky. Spread it on there, yum!
A fine combination, blood and garlic sauce. I’m sure it must be tasty! Great take.
Er, well, can’t speak from personal experience… But I hear Hannibal swears by it.
Ugh, grandpa should be glad about the vampires, they provide dinner. Great scary story. I’m not going to Santa Carla, wherever that is. 🙂
I imagine he dislikes vamps ’cause they’re in competition for the same food supply.
I thought the vamps suck the blood, the ghouls eat the steaks… (ugh… LOL)
LOL
Listen, just so you know, if you try to stop us, or vamp out in any way, I’ll stake you without even thinking twice about it!–Edgar
Sounds like a scary town! Santa Carla just can’t catch a break, can it? So are Edgar and Alan undercover ghoul-hunting now? 🙂
The number of times I’ve seen The Lost Boys is probably in double figures…
Then you’ll want to buy a garlic t-shirt?
I want to smash garlic up in the bath tub and fill water pistols with it…
I’m off to watch the lost boys again – great.
Death by stereo.
Vampires are bad enough, but duplicitous, garlic-loving vampires? What is this world coming to? 😉
Just about medium rare.
🙂
Wow, love it! Vampires and Ghouls! Tasty tourist cuisine. 😀
I like the tasty chubby tourists, but too many saturated fats are bad for you.
Unless you’re a ghoul or a zombie or whatever it is that eats people. LOL
Ghoulish piece. I like it.
Boy meets ghoul in Istanbul, April Fool.
Oh this gives me shivers.. spreading a false rumor.. just to fool the tourists…wasn’t the name of the city Sunnydale?
In Lost Boys? Naw. Grandpa’s line is just about the last line of the movie. (Sunnydale was Buffy.)
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Dear Dave,
Grandpa’s got it made I’d say. He should stop complaining. Bon apetit.
Shalom,
Rochelle
As long as the vamp gangs leave a few tourists for everyone else, I’m sure they’ll get along all right. Maybe not friendly, but not at war over food supply either.
Gross, but clever. Garlic sauce! Grandpa seems to have the edge on the competition.
I guess it’s yummy. Wonder if the vamps think so, too.