Literature

September 4, 1864Midnight. Too late to fall asleep, too early to be awake. A candle burns on my nightstand, the flickering shadows foreboding. I am haunted already. Will I ever…

It’s difficult for me to describe the moments that followed.I remember footfalls and shrieking and the servants praying outside their quarters. I remember staying on my knees, yelling out of…

I’m not sure how long we stayed in the room together. The minutes ticked away on the grandfather clock in the corner, but all I was aware of was the…

The next week passed in a blur. I ran from fittings at Mrs. Fells’s dress shop to visits with Rosalyn in the Cartwrights’ stuffy parlor to the tavern with Damon….

The weather didn’t break by my engagement dinner a few days later, and even at five o’clock in the afternoon the air was hot and humid. In the kitchen, I’d…

The next morning, I awoke to breathless news from Rosalyn’s servants that her prized dog, Penny, had been attacked. Mrs. Cartwright summoned me to her daughter’s chambers, saying nothing had…

I didn’t call on the Cartwrights that day. Instead, after searching the path, I sprinted the two miles back to the estate, terrified that Katherine had somehow been dragged into…

August 21, 1864I can’t stop thinking about her. I will not even write her name; I daren’t. She is beautiful, entrancing, singular. When I’m with Rosalyn, I am Giuseppe’s son,…

The next afternoon, I found myself sitting on a stiff, low-backed velvet chair in the Cartwrights’ sitting room. Every time I shifted, trying to find a spot of comfort on…

The day my life changed started out like any other. It was a hot August afternoon in 1864, the weather so oppressive that even the flies stopped swarming around the…

Ethan gasped, sucking in a long breath of air, and coughed his way awake, his whole body shaking.Everything hurt. Gingerly, he patted himself down, finding that he was sticky with…

Elena, Stefan, and Damon headed toward Elena’s dorm together, and tension thrummed sharply between them.Elena had taken Stefan’s hand automatical y as they walked, and he had stiffened and then…

It seemed like he and Bonnie had been waiting forever in the tiny back office of the library, Matt thought. They had strained to catch a sound, to try and…

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Damon was moving fast, and Elena and the others had to almost race to keep up with him as they headed for the library. “Typical Stefan, sacrificing himself,” he muttered…

Stefan hadn’t had a plan when he agreed to stay in Matt’s place. He just knew he had to save Matt, and now he hoped Damon would come for him….

Bonnie didn’t have her keys. She knew exactly where they were, but that didn’t do her much good: they were lying on the bedside table next to Zander’s neat plain…

Ethan had Chloe, was holding her tightly in his arms like a parody of a lover’s embrace. Matt moaned deep in his throat and strained toward her, but he couldn’t…

When he opened his door and saw Elena, James’s face crumpled, just for a fraction of a second, and he stepped backward, as if he was considering closing the door…

Initiation night for the newest members of the Vitale Society had arrived at last. The cavernous room was lit only by golden candlelight from long tapers placed around the space…