LTROI-Novel

My spirit is weak and my mind weeps.
The hopes of this life have become daggers that have pierced my soul.
My wounds I fear are mortal.
My fractured heart has bled out, my veins have collapsed.
My essence is starved, craving the delicacy of life.
I feel the rot and decay of my soul within push toward the surface.
I cannot let this be. I shall retreat within myself until the sun sets on a better day.
Will I find solace in the depths of my mind or shall I be consumed by the rot within?
Can a soul be revived?

The higher powers of the reflective intellect
are more decidedly and more usefully tasked
by the unostentatious game of draughts than
by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
E. A. Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Esteban placed the jug of lemonade he was carrying on his bedside table, next to which Oskar was lying awake.

'How are you feeling?'
'Tired, but OK I guess.'

And this word plunged me into fury and I bared
my teeth under my hood and I leaned towards his
fresh neck and he didn't flinch at all, and I said:
–Why aren't you afraid of me?
Marcel Schwob, The Children's Crusade

A middle-aged man sat at the dining room table, drinking coffee after having finished a simple breakfast. He had not slept well. It would soon be morning, and he could see through the windows that the sky was no longer completely pitch-black.

Post-ending fan fiction, mainly novel-based but should fit with the film plotwise. I've tried to be 'realistic,' which I found difficult in matters such as who (and more importantly, why) would willingly help Oskar and Eli. Hopefully I've managed to not spoonfeed the reader without being too confusing. Let me know what you think, and please point out anything that would be too outlandish in Sweden (which I've never set foot on) or language errors.

The following is the product of my speculation about how Eli would consume blood brought home to her by Håkan, as evidently occurred before she met Oskar in the novel.

Disclaimer:
The following is adapted from the novel Let the Right One In by John A. Linqvist and the film bearing the same name. The characters in this work are those of Mr. Linqvist and no copyright protection is asserted to this work.

Quick Bright Things
by Kírk Barrett