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WEREWOLVES, VAMPIRES AND GRACE

  Werewolves, Vampires, and Grace   Yep, werewolves and vampires.   A werewolf is usually an ordinary person who is under a curse or is bitten by another werewolf. This person, who may be a decent, law abiding citizen is changed into an evil, destructive beast during the three days of the full moon.   Likewise, a vampire may have started out life as an exceptional human being, but after the bite of a vampire, in death, that person becomes a despicable terror of the night.   They didn’t choose their fate.   My wide experience with fantasy literature has shown me that these creatures are not always the villains of the story.   Sometimes they choose to be the heroes.   Likewise, that holy knight or white wizard, hero types, can sometimes be hiding or struggling with a villainous side of their nature.   Like us.   We are all have a mixture of hero and villain, whether we want to admit it or not.   Sometimes, we might even be rather found of that villain, secretly of course. At