after launch presentation

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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