The freakish little leader of the orchestra, newly imported from Sicily to New York, tossed his conductor's wand excitedly through the air, drowning with musical thunders the hum of conversation and the clatter of plates.

August 2, 2002 (NTL World News) - A teenager has been found guilty of murdering his elderly neighbour and drinking her blood in a vampire ritual. Art student Mathew Hardman, 17, butchered Mabel Leyshon at her home in Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, last November. He has been jailed for a minimum of 12 years.

As I walk down the road,
Paying no attention to my social demise,
I seem to be living in the moment,
Deep inside me I hear,
A voice that haunts me from another time,
Long ago from another year,
Pulling me back and pushing me forward,
It seems my life has been directed at this point,
By an incoherent puppet master.
I have these memories driven and soaked with my tears,
Rain falls ont he pavement,
Falling between the cracks,
I can smell the sharp, racid songs of the rain on the tar,
And still be caught in my past,

October 14, 2008 (The Courier-Mail / Tony Keim) -- A teenager who tried to kill her pet dog so she could drink its blood and become a vampire has been accused of trashing her mum's Ipswich home. Kayler Rose-Maree Scott, 18, appeared before Ipswich Magistrate's Court on Monday morning charged with wilful damage. Scott was arrested over the weekend for allegedly smashing 15 windows of her mother's home.

dragons fly free
over a blood red sea
unicorns run abundant
on plains of green land
wizards and goblins
there are quite a few
in the land of my mind
anything's true
I make up the worlds
I give them their names
I name all the seas and mountains and plains
I make up the species
like froggins and gloons
I give them the days, the nights, and the moon
with out much a thought
I give them all homes
I make up the stories
I make up their lives
the world is my own
I am the creator