Eyes Without A Face

Dr. Morgana Jones the Baltimore Maryland psychiatrist was getting nowhere with the vampiress called Martini.

Martini was a vampiress with amnesia and had been sent to Dr. Jones for treatment by Dracul Van Helsing a couple of months earlier.

But no sign of any memory. Hypnosis. Regression. Nothing seemed to work.

Now Martini was asleep on the couch.

It appeared that this latest session was going to waste as well.

Something had so traumatized the beautiful vampiress that she had lost all memory of her previous life.

Suddenly Martini woke up screaming.

"Martini, what is it?" Doctor Jones asked.

"I was singing the role of Marguerite in Charles Gounod's opera Faust when I saw someone staring at me from a second floor box seat," Martini sobbed, "he had eyes but no face. His face was made of wheat, barley, crabgrass, dandelions, Scotch thistle, purple dock and ragweed."



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Renfield R. Renfield, Chief of Security and Intelligence for Set Enterprises (the conglomerate owned by the multi-millionaire and formerly multibillionaire ancient Egyptian vampire Set) was hoping to track down the one responsible for creating the H1N1 virus. That virus had devastated the hog industry in the Canadian province of Alberta and was one of many financial setbacks his formerly billionaire boss had to endure this past year.

Of course the paranoid UN and WHO were chattering about a possible pandemic that could kill millions of people.

But that didn't concern Renfield. People were only people. And money WAS money.

Renfield now had an informer from the murky world of intelligence and espionage.

An informer called Brooklyn Costello.

"The man you're after... if you can call him a man," Brooklyn coughed, "is a scientist who does contract work for some of America's largest arms manufacturers. Some people claim that he's the legendary Doctor Johann Georg Faust the famous Renaissance alchemist. astrologer and magician. Born in 1480, and supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in 1512 in exchange for 28 years of service from the demon Mephistopheles. He supposedly died in 1540 in an alchemical experiment gone horribly wrong. His body was found mutilated. But some reports say he never died and the Devil will collect his soul on Judgement Day."

"Well," Renfield replied, "if Richard Dawkins is right and there is no God, then presumably there's no Devil and Faust has nothing to be worried about."

"Would you like a picture of him?" Brooklyn asked.

"That would be nice," Renfield replied.

"Personally, if it was an experiment gone horribly wrong," Costello handed Renfield the photo, "I think he was trying to create the world's first genetically modified foods rather than turning lead into gold."

The photo was of a man with eyes but no face. The face was made up of wheat, barley, crabgrass, dandelions, Scotch thistle, purple dock and ragweed.


To be continued.