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The Journey to Porle Joen....
Scaring Class mates in Year 5!
Continuing the Horror in the 90’s...
The Journey to Awakening....
The Original Copy of the poem “Awakening”...
Early Writings...
The Fun of Research...
First Printed Draft...
The Journey isComplete....
Thank you...
Thank you to ALL my family and friends who havetaken this extremely long journey with me. Thepoem “Awakening” was written in 1991 based on astory concept. In 2008, the story finally clawed itsway to my frontal lobe and thus began a steady fouryears journey of creative insanity on therollercoaster of procrastination.
If I thanked you all individually, it would be a wholeother book but a few must be mentioned here.
Thank you to my Mummy for reading to me as anankle biter and encouraging the creative creaturewithin. Thank you to my Not Real Daddy for makingthat woman very happy!
My Mummy for reading to me as an
ankle biter and encouraging the
creative creature within. Thank you to
my Not Real Daddy for making that woman
very happy!
Thank you to...
Thank you to my Mummy for reading to me as anankle biter and encouraging the creative creaturewithin. Thank you to my Not Real Daddy for makingthat woman very happy!
Jase for encouraging the creative creature to re-
emerge after years of hiding and for being my
untitled “go to” man AND for being a truly creative inspiration to be around.
Thank you to...Rosie for Your early editing contributions though you often burrowed your frow in crustratedfroncentration as I battled the cold hard concrete.
Nate and
Kathanfor the
last 10 years of always being awesome!
Benny for being a sick and twisted
A.W. that I can always talk death
and destruction with. Love you, see you, bye.
Franc for showing me how to find Rebs and Zach.
Thank you to my Mummy for reading to me as anankle biter and encouraging the creative creaturewithin. Thank you to my Not Real Daddy for makingthat woman very happy!
Thank you to...
Larissa for reminding me that life is too short to forget your dreams.
Dot – just because. TYLYMY.
Thank you to my Mummy for reading to me as anankle biter and encouraging the creative creaturewithin. Thank you to my Not Real Daddy for makingthat woman very happy!
Dedicated to Larissa Jane HarrisMy inspiration in life!
AwakeningI awoke, I was alone.
My limbs were stiff, unused, weak. My body was cold and yet my veins were warm; warm and pulsating
with fresh blood.
My lips were dry, my hunger great.My day had come.
How long had I been here, suspended between life and death? Which side had I reached? I could feel the life
inside me; I was alive, I was real.
Yet I felt removed, empty, like an empty shell, a dead form.Which was I?
My mind was not my own, I could not think, I could not remember. My mind was a sieve, straining between
the mess of madness, searching for an explanation, a reason,
but only detaining a feeling of loss and remorse. For something I had control over and regret
for my decisionand yet I felt somehow relieved.
But for what reason, what decision, I did not know.
I know now.Remorse?
I have none.
Porle Joen Copyright 1991
The Awakening Dictionary:
“Awakening”
a·wak·en·ing [uh-wey-kuh-ning]
1. A recognition, realization, or coming into awareness ofsomething: a rude awakening to the disagreeable facts
2. Process of becoming a Vampire• A Created ‘s Awakening begins after death and will
continue until succession of Stuttering• A First’s Awakening occurs during adolescence
PROLOGUE
... So it
Began
PART I
“New World”
Strange words and stranger
places,
borrowed memories of foreign
faces.
Cold bodies, no burning pyre,
broken covenant still beating fire.
“I wouldn’t mind watching
Bex but nobody wants to
see your pasty ass...” -
Benny
Awakening contains
164,764 words!
The Awakening Dictionary:
“Created”
cre·ate [kree-eyt]
1. To cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes
2. A Vampire whom has Awakened following human deathand infection of the Vampiric Virus
“Try that again, I’ll rip your fucking throat out.”
- Rebecca
“So, I’m thinking if you eat tonight you will definitely
desecrate me.” - Zach
Awakening is
453 pages!
The Awakening Dictionary:
“First”
first [furst]1. The person or thing that is first in time, order, rank, etc2. The beginning3. The first part; first member of a series. 4. Evolutionary Vampire born from inheritance of genes
The first word was written on
December 28th
2008
PART II“Lost”
Below the torrential stormthat whips the waves asunder,beneath the turbulent exterior,expectation was always calm.
I was
pronounced dead.
She told me tricks to
killing people so that
others would never
know. Horrible,
disgusting, fascinating
tricks.
The Awakening Dictionary:
“Stuttering”
stut·ter [stuht-er]
1. Distorted action characterized principally by blocks or spasms interrupting the rhythm
2. The uncontrollable dropping in and out of senses during Awakening.
AwakeningIs a real word useD
to describe the process of
development of “real vampires”
“Of course I care, you idiot.”
“That’s Vampiot to you,” - Rebecca.
The word “Blood”
appears 411 times!
The Awakening Dictionary:
“Shimmer”
shim·mer [shim-er]
1. To appear to quiver or vibrate in faint light or while reflecting heat waves.
2. The appearance of alternate faces on a Created.
“Trust me, once you get past the concept that
you were a pet, it’s easier.” - Zach
PART III“Revenge”
Floods of decaying carcass dreamstear open fragile woven seamswhere once mistakes were justified, yet now warm truth has nullified.
Only flashes came to me,
red and
sticky
Awakening
contains
879,826
characters!
The Awakening Dictionary:
“Cycling”
cy·cle [sahy-kuhl]
1. A recurrent series of events or processes in plants and animals: a life cycle ; a growth cycle ; a metabolic cycle
2. The process of blood flow throughout two Vampires as they feed from each other
I’ll give you, ‘Wants to be stong’!
Right in your face!
Awakening took 2 months to write...
And almost 4 years to edit!
Damn procrastination!
“Personally, I would have
slaughtered the bitch.” - Abbey
No characters are
NAMED
in the first
30 pages!
She was really pretty... I wore her face for a little bit.”
- Jordan
The Awakening Dictionary:
“Donor”
do·nor [doh-ner]
1. A person or animal providing blood, an organ, or other biological tissue for transfusion or transplantation
2. A human who chooses to donate blood through direct arterial/venous bleeding to a Vampire.
“Does the pope shit in the woods?”
- Rebecca
Awakening was officially published on
August 17th, 2012!
Rules for being a vampire:
1. Do not eat past the point of death2. Do not eat blood that has come into contact with air3. Do not eat food – it will rot inside of you4. Fresh blood is essential5. Human blood is essential... occasionally6. Do not eat too much human blood – it will cause insanity7. Bagged blood is reasonable substitute though it must be
sourced from a living donor, treated and cooled8. Every animal and every human has a different taste. In
humans, this is largely affected by their diet. Find your favourite and enjoy!
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