Seattle, Washington
By R. Cary
Seattle, Washington is located 2,757 miles from Washington, D. C. in the United States of America. This is no coincidence. After the Civil War was lost by the south in 1865, Abraham Lincoln banned vampires from the United States (fictionalized in the movie Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter). Under the leadership of the Cohen family (fictionalized in the movie Twilight), the vampires sought to abandon their homestead of Louisiana (fictionalized in the movie Interview with the Vampire). Seeking refuge elsewhere, Cohen urged the vampires to move to the Oregon Territory (present day Seattle, Washington) when the Civil War ended, the furthest point from Washington, D.C. to avoid persecution. On November 11, 1866 through the efforts of the Cohen family and a coalition of vampires, a treaty with then Governor of Oregon Sylvester Pennoyer to annex what is now known as the state of Washington was reached. The Cohen’s and the vampire coalition committed to Pennoyer that no vampires will feed on Oregon Territory citizenry. Seattle itself began with Luther M. Collins, Henry Van Asselt, Jacob Maple and Samuel Maple (great great grandfather and uncle of fictional character Jacob the shape shifter/werewolf in Twilight), who together settled a claim on the banks of the Duwamish River to prevent vampire attacks in the area. In 1869, this claim became the city of Seattle. To this day, the descendants of Collins, Asselt and the Maples work to limit vampire attacks in the area while the Cohen’s are working endlessly on technology to find a cure for vampires.
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Seattle, Washington
By R. Cary
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Poetry & Prose By R. Cary 