December 17, 2006 (Christine Dellert / Orlando Sentinel) - She was called a killer. A gothic vampire. An awkward 15-year-old who fell in with the wrong crowd. Today, at 25, Heather Wendorf-Kelly isn't out to change minds. She's just trying to move her life forward and give the scars of her past time to heal.

I'm too afraid to sleep
and much too scared to fly.
I'm too ashamed to leap
and too dried out to cry.
I have a demon in my head
and an angel by my side.
There's a monster under my bed
and my confidence has died.
I hear a freight-train in my room,
and a creaking in the den..
I feel the icy breath of doom
so I sit down and count to ten.
I swallow the pill,
knock back a drink.
I shiver from the chill.
The dark lives thick as ink.
The thoughts are racing through my mind.

this illusion-
disastrous
this face-
just a mask
these eyes-
only windows
into my desolate,
dispirited soul.

Raevynn
March 31, 2002

September 9, 2008 (Pretoria News) -- A fad for vampire teeth means health troubles ahead, a health insurer warned Monday in Germany, where lovers of spooky Gothic music have been filing their canine teeth into sharp points.