Justin Gibson

Justin Gibson grew up in the Dallas suburbia, but has since transplanted to the D.C. area. He was schooled at Southern Methodist University, which was nice. He currently is employed as a marketing copywriter, but longs to one day mostly garden. He’s previously had work published with The Pinch and Drunk Monkeys. He is also a fiction reader for Okay Donkey.

BOWLING WITH DRACULA by Justin Gibson

The first thing we discovered was that vampires loved contracts. Well, no, sorry, I guess the first thing we discovered was the vampires themselves — that they’re real. We figured it out pretty quick, as pets went missing; as we started to get the heebie-jeebies when twilight flooded our backyards a cool blue; as pale strangers stood outside our windows in the middle of the night and asked if we’d let them in, voices like warm caramel. Very strange stuff for these parts, but very obvious: That’s vampires.  But we figured out vampires loved contracts almost right after that. Erik…

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