This is a 6th in a series of posts that will look at histories of recurring (or not) characters in my writing. It takes a look at another of my oldest characters.

Roek is a vampire main character that first publicly appeared in my short story The Pendant, published by the small print magazine Title Goes Here: in their Spring 2010 issue as the lead story. It revolved around Detective Jack Young finding Roek's pendant at a crime scene and the events that transpire. However, the story itself was not new to me. I wrote the original story, called Roek at the time, as a teenager sometime around 1993 on an old typewriter that I took as payment instead of money for cleaning out a basement for someone.

I still have the original copy of the story, as well as the very first rewrite that was done a year or so later in 1994 or 1995 on the same typewriter. Everything but the title is basically the same. It was simply rewrote one final time ~13 years after the fact in 2008 and that was the version submitted to Title Goes Here:, which is the version used now with only minor edits to fix typos.

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