Draculas

Mortimer rolled on top of her, like a lover, blood and saliva dripping onto Jenny's face and neck. Mortimer's eyes zeroed in on the movement, and his head jerked up, blood draining out of his mouth and down the front of his shirt like a sieve. Hollis raised the axe, ready to make a lupine feast of the boy's small brain, when Theolonious began to scream. And not seeing it happen is sort of unsatisfying, and readers will be asking "Well, did the bomb go off?