story: “Vampires in the Lemon Grove”
author: Karen Russell
year: 2012
where: Eat Greek, mid-afternoon
note: the collection’s title story
a line: “There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species. And now that loneliness was over.”
theme(s): marriage and longevity
samantha Neugebauer 