Fiction
June 2023
Crushed Voices
by Anthonie Holslag
Alma... Alma... Alma... Some stories begin with names, because they are leading. A scholar of literature is researching author Bram Stoker and his classic novel Dracula. In the archives of the Dublin library, he finds an old, handwritten manuscript titled The Vampire. He finds himself immersed in a tale of mortality, immortality, the human, the inhuman and their loved ones. The more he reads, the more he realizes that the story is trying to lead him down a fateful path. Some stories are alive, he discovers. They are alive and have teeth. They can devour you ...
