For millenia, Krsnik have been living among us.

Preying on us.

Admiring our art.

Indulging in centuries-old blood feuds between clans and splinter groups of clans and free krsnik and rogue krsnik called kudlak and mythical creatures from other countries and...

Yeah, it's a messy, hidden world out there.

Of course, Joanna doesn't know any of this as she's too busy struggling to fit in at her new school in Hong Kong. Which makes sense when you're two years older than everyone else.

Her friend Adam doesn't know much about krsnik either, though he might soon as he's just started planning a web serial about them.

And who cares if they know or not, it's obvious they'll never actually meet one.

Or three.

Not in a story called 'Krsnik.'

No way.

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NOTES

In Slovene/Croatian culture, krsnik are typically portrayed as vampire hunters, but in this series they're the vamps.

The basic idea is that common vampire mythology is an exaggerated version of the krsnik, possibly created by themselves using human pen names. For example, they're not technically immortal, but they do live an incredibly long life; they're twice as strong as humans, and sunlight merely toasts them a little.

I wrote this about 8 years ago, but was never happy with it, so I'm rewriting it as a vampire/gang horror thing and putting it up here for anyone to read. It's a first draft of the new version so probably a bit rough in places.

There's some Slovene and other languages scattered about to give an international feel, but only simple stuff like 'yes' and 'no' and 'stop staring at my neck.'

Don't pay too much attention to the cover, the horror element of this story is actually quite low key.