Hello. It’s time for another Friday Fictioneers entry. The challenge is to write a 100-word story in response to a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Follow the link to her blog for more information. Thank you to all who take the time to read, like, or comment.

PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz

These vampiric thoughts

Immortality
I’ve never craved.
I’m haunted
By mere thoughts of old age.
But sometimes I wonder,
If all I knew were gone,
Yet I lived on,
Could I be reborn
As someone new?
Not bound by who I am,
Or what I’ve done.
A wicked fantasy, I know;
To squander love
In favour of a slate wiped clean as the unmarked grave.
Would I still fear the dark
And the monsters that lurk within?
Would the sun’s kiss
Burn my skin?
And would I be devoured
By these vampiric thoughts
That gnaw at me with teeth as sharp as sin?