Spigot Girl
for Vampire: the Masquerade
by Katherine Farmar
Susannah "Spigot Girl" Hollander, or Spig to her friends, looks unassuming at first, as she cultivates a nondescript appearance. Her clothes are usually either in black or drab earth colors, and her lank brown hair tends to fall over her eyes, hiding the intensity of the expression they hold. Those who pass her by probably don't even notice she's there; those who talk to her may think her a little stupid, or maybe just too dreamy-headed for her own good, as she tends to stare off into space and loses the thread of a conversation easily. While she's no genius, she's not stupid either. She's just preoccupied with her addiction: being fed on by vampires.
When Susannah was 10, her father went to prison for the third time and her mother divorced him. A series of feckless and unpleasant "stepfathers" alternately ignored and abused her while her mother sank deeper into alcoholism, until she turned 16 and stole a rich man's wallet. The wallet contained just enough money to get her halfway across the country -- to a city with a bar called Dark Fate.
Dark Fate was the center of a thriving "vampire" subculture that had more to do with Gothic aesthetics than with anything supernatural. Most of the regular patrons just liked to wear black clothes and white make-up and read lush, overwritten horror novels . . . but some of them took their interest in the "creatures of the night" in an entirely different direction. Rather than just dressing . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: January 10, 2003
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