Nighttime Rainbow
The night hung thick over the waterfront like dark gray octopus ink. Flying above, even Nosferatu could not penetrate the gloom with his x-ray optics, swooping downwards through the heavens, piercing the oceanic air.
His high-pitched hearing, unique to his kind, detected prey below. Descending almost to the murky saltwater surface, he lashed out lightning quick, and the quarry was caught. The Beast did not struggle. Sometimes the shock alone did them in.
The first bite was always the best. Sinking his teeth into his game, he was shocked to taste so much salt in the blood. What was this being? Was it true what they said? Had Homo sapiens gotten so much heavier due to their bad eating habits?
Never had the night been as shadowy as it was this evening. Witnessing the longest lunar eclipse in a millennium, his curiosity had piqued beyond belief. Flaming like a red-orange meteorite, he landed on a nearby dirty white lighthouse, still grasping his kill. The lights revolved to reveal a large amount of violet blood!
Before he could react, a powerful force had punched him almost through the roof. As the pale alabaster vampire's pallid-yellow eyes took one last look at the living entity that he had caught, his victim had come back to life. Somehow it appeared familiar, somewhere between a humanoid and a giant green lizard. And the Creature from the Black Lagoon plunged them both back under the deep blue sea.
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David Huberman has had work published in Evergreen Review, A Gathering of Tribes, Long Shot, Lungful, Icon, Make Room for Dada, Best of Panic, the anthology The Jewish History of the Lower East Side, The Unbearables, Prometheus, Rant, Pink Pages, and Public Illumination, among many others. He has performed in three plays at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club and also appears as a lead actor in the movie Trail of Blood, 1995, archived in the TCM (Turner Classic Movies) database. Follow this link: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/517247/Trail-of-Blood/. He reads his work all over New York City and now to a worldwide audience on Zoom.
A recently published short story “Vampires of Pattaya Beach,” a fictional, horror, avant-garde account, can be seen in the selective story anthology 2016–2018 issue of Sensitive Skin.
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