[Sendo]

My creative writing class assignment.

The assignment was:
To write a monologue or short scene that is inspired by a quote on a piece of paper that Ms. Chambers gave us. Luckily for me, one was a quote by Anne Rice.

The quote is:
"Do you know how few vampires have the stamina for immortality? How quickly they perish of their own will. The world changes, we do not: therein lies the irony that finally kills." -Armand
(Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice)

The challenge for me:
To blend my style of writing with Anne Rice's so that it those sentences from the quote do not appear as beacons in a sea of shit.

The Monologue:
Do you know how few vampires have the stamina for immortality? Very few, that is for sure. Most are not adaptable, perfect predators. These "predators" perish of their own free will, their minds too weak to wrap around the comings and goings of people. The trends in everyday life. They allow themselves to waste away, forgetting the dark opulence from whence they achieved their immortality. The world changes quickly, a whirling, twirling mass of flailing limbs and blood curdling screams. As vampires we must navigate that vortex, for we are trapped in it as long as there is fresh blood upon our lips. Those who would fling us vampires from that whirlpool must be the saviors of those incompetent vampires. But, as the world changes, those saviors are few and far between. The vampires live longer and longer, blindly searching for that stamina which other vampires possess by nature of our beings. The stronger vampires must then replenish our breed, for even in our strength we are lonely, and not all of the vampires created for companionship have the stamina for immortality. Therein lies the irony that kills.