The Kill Keppler Club: My Funny Vampire

Percy is a withdrawn, untalented vampire who hates his talented neighbour, Keppler, a wealthy advisor to the king. His perceptions of reality are tainted by his jealousy, and his cravings for raw meat, which he has abandoned at the urging of his therapist, Max. But Percy has made a grave error, and now the Kill Keppler Club is insisting he rectify it by...killing his nemesis. Don't be swayed by Percy's dubious self-justification. He is just as greedy and weak as the rest of us.

Here's what's going on inside Percy's somewhat sex-addled brain:

"Despite his outstanding reputation for observing heavenly bodies, Keppler is basically a cretin. He’s been living in the same hovel for centuries and finally, after inventing planetary motion—along with the accursed pie chart in order to explain the whole thing—he decides on alchemy as a profession. I mean really! “It’s fairly easy to turn lead into gold,” he tells me smugly every time I see him. Once he became Imperial Arsehole to the King, he became truly insufferable.

I’m not the only one who hates the guy. The Kill Keppler Club breakfast meetings were a hotbed of assassination ideas. The only drawback was that getting caught killing the king’s golden goose could mean a long, nasty course of torture ending in an ugly death. Even we vampires wouldn’t be immune to that sort of onslaught. And of course, I was chief whipping boy at virtually every meeting, having created the problem in the first place by not killing him outright. I’d had to endure the taunts for decades."

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The Kill Keppler Club: My Funny Vampire

Percy is a withdrawn, untalented vampire who hates his talented neighbour, Keppler, a wealthy advisor to the king. His perceptions of reality are tainted by his jealousy, and his cravings for raw meat, which he has abandoned at the urging of his therapist, Max. But Percy has made a grave error, and now the Kill Keppler Club is insisting he rectify it by...killing his nemesis. Don't be swayed by Percy's dubious self-justification. He is just as greedy and weak as the rest of us.

Here's what's going on inside Percy's somewhat sex-addled brain:

"Despite his outstanding reputation for observing heavenly bodies, Keppler is basically a cretin. He’s been living in the same hovel for centuries and finally, after inventing planetary motion—along with the accursed pie chart in order to explain the whole thing—he decides on alchemy as a profession. I mean really! “It’s fairly easy to turn lead into gold,” he tells me smugly every time I see him. Once he became Imperial Arsehole to the King, he became truly insufferable.

I’m not the only one who hates the guy. The Kill Keppler Club breakfast meetings were a hotbed of assassination ideas. The only drawback was that getting caught killing the king’s golden goose could mean a long, nasty course of torture ending in an ugly death. Even we vampires wouldn’t be immune to that sort of onslaught. And of course, I was chief whipping boy at virtually every meeting, having created the problem in the first place by not killing him outright. I’d had to endure the taunts for decades."

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The Kill Keppler Club: My Funny Vampire

The Kill Keppler Club: My Funny Vampire

by Leslie Smith Dow
The Kill Keppler Club: My Funny Vampire

The Kill Keppler Club: My Funny Vampire

by Leslie Smith Dow

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Overview

Percy is a withdrawn, untalented vampire who hates his talented neighbour, Keppler, a wealthy advisor to the king. His perceptions of reality are tainted by his jealousy, and his cravings for raw meat, which he has abandoned at the urging of his therapist, Max. But Percy has made a grave error, and now the Kill Keppler Club is insisting he rectify it by...killing his nemesis. Don't be swayed by Percy's dubious self-justification. He is just as greedy and weak as the rest of us.

Here's what's going on inside Percy's somewhat sex-addled brain:

"Despite his outstanding reputation for observing heavenly bodies, Keppler is basically a cretin. He’s been living in the same hovel for centuries and finally, after inventing planetary motion—along with the accursed pie chart in order to explain the whole thing—he decides on alchemy as a profession. I mean really! “It’s fairly easy to turn lead into gold,” he tells me smugly every time I see him. Once he became Imperial Arsehole to the King, he became truly insufferable.

I’m not the only one who hates the guy. The Kill Keppler Club breakfast meetings were a hotbed of assassination ideas. The only drawback was that getting caught killing the king’s golden goose could mean a long, nasty course of torture ending in an ugly death. Even we vampires wouldn’t be immune to that sort of onslaught. And of course, I was chief whipping boy at virtually every meeting, having created the problem in the first place by not killing him outright. I’d had to endure the taunts for decades."


Product Details

BN ID: 2940154050521
Publisher: Leslie Smith Dow
Publication date: 03/02/2017
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 69 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

As a rock 'n' roll journalist for several years, I interviewed and reviewed acts like Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, BB King, James Cotton, Supertramp, Axl Rose, Tragically Hip, Ria Mae, and many more. Somehow, the weirdness of writing concert reviews at 3 a.m. in an empty newsroom just never left me. That experience, combined with growing up in a very insular but sinful small town, and the strange events that occur during frequent travelling has left me permanently warped. My only outlet is the Badass Bingo gang, who figure prominently in the Badass Hippie Tales series. They have really got a hold on me! Check out Ricki Wilson's Indie Spotlight: http://rickiwilson.com/4/post/2017/03/indie-spotlight-on-badass-hippie-tales-by-leslie-smith-dow-lesliesmithdow.html

I am the author of several print and e-books including the award-winning historical biographies Adele Hugo: La Miserable and Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond the King and I. Adele Hugo: La Miserable has recently been re-released as an e-book, with a new Afterword detailing the fascinating mystery of a painting which could link Adele and the founder of French Impressionist painting, Edouard Monet.

Read Elissa Barnard's review of the re-issued e-edition of Adele Hugo in www.localxpress.ca at https://www.localxpress.ca/local-arts-and-life/adele-hugo-still-haunts-author-443323. See details of the new Afterword, featuring the mystery of Adele and French painter Edouard Manet at https://gooselane.com/collections/e-books/products/adele-hugo.

I am also a beekeeper, farmer and owner of Red House Honey, which produces all-natural raw, kosher honey on the shores of the St. Lawrence River.

AWARDS/JURIES: I received the Canadian Authors' Association Air Canada Award for Most Promising Canadian Author under 30 and the Dartmouth Writers’ Award for Non-Fiction. I was a finalist for the Ontario Trillium Award, the Ottawa Citizen and Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton writing awards. I have received grants for my writing from the Canada Council, the City of Ottawa and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton and I have been part of selection juries for writing grants and the on-line poetry magazine, ByWords.

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