I'm writing a kind of Twhinelite/Dresden Files/Yami no Matsuei crossover/mash-up, which involves a motley team of preternatural investigators doing some undercover work at a "gentleman's club" in Chicago. This includes the one girl on the team, who's a kind of low-key White Court vampire/energy vamp getting a job as a stripper. She's kind of playing up the vampire part of her nature ("Oh, I'm one of those vampire lifestyle people, but don't worry, it's just a personal kink and my boyfriend is my donor, so it's all safe.") as part of her cover. I'm just stuck as to what would be a good song for her to strip to; one or two of the songs on the "True Blood" soundtrack album work, but since they're a bit on a Southern rock wave-length, I was trying to think of something not quite so regional. Any thoughts?

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Your honest opinions on this story would be appreciated before I start making the rounds of the fantasy magazine markets with it....

Can anyone point me toward something that would describe the style, etc. of writing military-type reports of combat, etc? I need this for an on-going RP series and I have no idea where to get started searching for this kind of information.

Okay, working on a short story dealing with a romance/relationship between a human girl and a werewolf guy, inspired oddly enough by the Fifties/early Sixties song "The Leader of the Pack" (yeah, her honey is the leader of a motorcycle gang of werewolves). One major plot point involves the girl getting pregnant and having to essentially move in with her man's pack (they're all in favor of him having a human mate, since they almost need a human in the logpile every so often to keep the stock from getting too wolfish and producing strange-looking people who have a hard time passing as human and may have significant problems shifting), since they're more accepting of her situation than her own family (staunch Christians in a small town, you get the idea).

I'm hung up as to how pregnancy in a human girl carrying a half-were. I've established a few things on pregnant weres: they have a harder time at controlling their ability to shift during the nine months, thus if they're turning fuzzy (Thanks, Jim, for that nifty turn of a phrase in "Day Off" :: Winks:: ), they can't stop it till it's run itself out (usually in twenty four to seventy-two hours); the baby is born looking like mom at the time of delivery, so if she's in wolf-form, the baby looks like a wolf pup, and if she's in human form, the baby looks human. However, young weres have a hard time controlling their shifting abilities until they reach puberty: thus, if it's a full moon, junior is going to go fuzzy no questions asked.

Which brings me to our gal: Does the kid stay in human form or will he come out looking wolfish till the moon changes phase? The latter is a bit of a freakish image, but I don't mind it.

No, not help becoming a vampire: I have no interest in becoming a blood-sucking wierdo. :: laughs::

I'm working on a short story/short novel dealing with a woman's crisis of faith after she gets forcibly turned by a vampire, but I'm stuck as to what sort of vampire it should be? The Anne Rice-esque emo blood-sucker doesn't work for me, nor does the over-sexed Laurell K. Hamilton variety, and I'm not sure as if I want to go the opposite way and incorporate something like Max Schreck in F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu". I'm trying to bring something new and original to the table here, and I'm afraid I'm coming up with a blank open document on my screen at the moment. Anyone got any suggestions?