Bloodsucker

I am a Dementor, a vampire.

I will suck out your experiences and feed off your anecdotes and extract the essence of every story you ever told me, every secret you shared.

I will pull them and shape them and chop them up mash them in with other tales until they coalesce into something new.

Scarlett O’Hara’s curtains become a dress. A silk purse brightens the ears of a toy sow.

I will add and embellish, I will reduce and redact.

Your kindness will become a woman’s cruelty. Her howl of agony transforms to a child’s shriek of excitement.

I am hooking people in their infinite variety with my butterfly net and weaving a tapestry of sparkling rainbows.