October 13, 2007 (NorthWest Herald / Geneva White) -- It isn't easy being a bat. Everyone seems to be frightened of you. They accuse you of having rabies and sucking blood. Women are terrified that you'll fly into their hair.

She creeps up on silent feet, whispering in my ear to ready myself once again, for the first time....

We've shared this embrace, my long lost lover. Your pale hands wrapped round my wrist to drag me to this sea of moonlight.

And as we float on the shade and shadow, the bottom falls from beneath us and we plummet into the blackness.

That cold encasing blackness that fires my soul.

Did you miss me as much as I missed you, my dark beauty?

Did you miss our dance beneath the bright moon, full and heavy, dripping with ice?

As the vampire flick Twilight tops the U.S. charts and opens in Britain, female viewers are swooning over the impossible romance between mortal and immortal. But many of their male companions will be pondering the age-old question: "Just what kind of hardware do I need to take down that sucker?" 

September 10, 2007 (AP / Little Rock) -- Seven weeks before Halloween, Little Rock zookeepers announced Monday the birth of three vampire bats. The staff at the Little Rock Zoo discovered the babies last week and estimate that they are about three weeks old and about 1 1/2 inches tall.