The Slayerettes have a very high level of rapier teen wit, peppered with pop-cult references and sly asides. What a message for us to emblazon on our t-shirts and on our hearts. They're children, making up bedtime stories of friendly vampires to comfort themselves in the dark. I mean the dark can get pretty dark. Sometimes you need a story.
Fairy tales are real.
Sometimes these teens need a story to cover themselves for a lost assignment or a lost weekend. Sometimes, though, they need a story to tell themselves to get through the latest horrific vision or ghastly demise. We know this as we work. We know the reference desk as a continuing story with cliche and banality along with a flashy denouement or a trailer for next week. We know the story of staff meetings where we wish a wooden stake could turn misbegotten shape to dust.