Excerpt:

Aunt Lena is driving me home from yet another direct sales party hosted by her daughter.  In the ten years since we graduated college, my cousin, the Queen of Home-Based business, has sold purses, makeup, kitchen products, nutritional supplements, sex toys, and now, food products for a company called Classy Cuisine.   Just as I am about to ask Aunt Lena if anyone has ever considered pairing a Classy Cuisine party with a sex toy party, she starts telling me about the time she stopped my grandmother from killing my grandfather…

The short story “Bloodsuckers” originally appeared in Illuminations, Volume 16 (2015), edited by Kimberly Fangman. Illuminations  is the award-winning artistic publication of Southeast Community College, where Kara taught English from 2008-2013.