The Twenty-Eighth Verse

In 1941, an Arizona town is haunted by a monster that thirst for blood: a hemomancer, one of the blood-wielding sorcerers that darken the pages of history. A priest rises to protect his parish, and the resulting battle will shake the town of the Nogales to its knees, even as its victor is destroyed by the outcome. A story of faith, fury, and the lies we tell ourselves to keep going. An urban fantasy short story set in the Into Vermilion universe. This and more stories like it can be found in Bartholomew Lander's short story collection All Bleeds Through: Ten Stories of Hemomancy and the World it Shaped.