The Dawning

by Melodee Aaron

For Elektra, the four-thousand-year-old vampire of Stanley Markinson's Bloodlust novels, reverberations of love, passion, and death move among the shadows that connect the past, present, and the future. When Roland, a one-time porn director whose films now knock at the door of the big time, decides to make a movie based on the series, he takes his production team, which includes his wife Valerie, on a whirlwind tour of the world to capture the essence of the locations mentioned in the books.

In this installment, the team is in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the hallowed ground of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. Valerie wasn't alive then, has only read about and seen maps and photographs of events of that fateful day. Then how can she so vividly imagine the Japanese planes flying in over harbor, know the names of aircraft she otherwise could not identify? What?or who?is affecting her? When she scans the horizon, why, at times, does she feel as though she is a different person?

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First published February 22, 2008

About the author

Melodee Aaron writes predominately in the subgenre of science fiction (hard), but she also works in fantasy, paranormal, historical, and contemporary settings.

Often, these subgenres are blended together in her stories with interesting results. After all, is it unreasonable for an advanced civilization to have pyrokinetic abilities that are provided by instrumentation? Ditto for shape shifters?

Many of Melodee's works involve the concept of "polyamory". The idea of polyamorous love—true romantic polyamorous love—between more than two people has long been a hallmark of Melodee's stories and her fresh take on the subject goes far beyond the traditional ménage and simple three-way-sex common in so much of erotica and erotica romance.

In addition to erotica romance, Melodee also writes erotica and screenplays for mainstream and adult films.